Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job

DeeFresh writes "ReadWriteWeb has an article up today discussing an incident in which a school employee lost his job after leaving a comment on the website of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. After the school employee responded to the newspaper's poll of 'the strangest thing you've ever eaten' with a feline-inspired vulgarity, Kurt Greenbaum, the site's director of social media, tracked down the commenter's identity through his IP address and reported him to school officials. When confronted, the school employee resigned from his job."

Comments

It's about open discourse

[SgtChaireBourne]

don't vent on the net. Save it for the local pub, or the diary you keep under your pillow.

Fuck you and take your anti-democracy attitude with you when you leave. You don't belong on the net. Get out.

Most countries have codified the right to religion and expression. Not just for the ones you, Robot, agree with, but the right for everybody.

A lot of companies would like to censor the net. It's cheaper than programming products that work. Don't give them ammo. It has repercussions for other countries, if not your own. Democracy depends on the ability to make informed decisions and that ability is contingent on open and multi-faceted debate. You can't have that if only One True Way is approved.

You have the right to say your views, no matter how wrong they are, but it stops there when it starts imposing on other people.

"The right to swing your fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 - 1935)

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[pwfffff]

So what you're saying is that people who are too fucking dumb to pick up on their conversational partners degree of emotional response via context need us to refrain from using certain four letter words in order to prevent them from becoming confused?

Fuck that.

There are people who consider those who use profanity to be less educated or less intelligent; they argue that the profane ones use such words in lieu of more 'proper' words because they do not know any 'higher' words. This is plainly bullshit, and I argue the opposite: those who protest the use of profanity are less intelligent because their inability to cope with certain words impedes their communications with anyone who does not hold their own prejudices.