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

Pussy. There, I said it.

[GPLDAN]

I say everyone on /. should head over the St. Louis Post Dispatch page and post variations on the word. There must be 100 words in the English language for it, so let's get started....

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[edmicman]

To all of you who think that it's some kind of social repression to frown upon people who make a habbit of unashamedly expressing themselves in a vulgar and crass manner, I suggest you go see the movie Idiocracy, because it's about YOU.

You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[Spazztastic]

Because you are offtopic. Or
The crowd is today in a very humorous mood.

My GP comment was modded +1 funny for some reason. Maybe it was an accidental moderation, but I wasn't going for funny. This'll get modded down as well as your comment. Oh well, I got karma to burn!

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[FatdogHaiku]

While strong language may occasionally be appropriate, I tend to believe the old axiom that:

"Profanity is the last bastion of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers"

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[tomhudson]

For those who haven't figured it out, the summary is wrong. It's not "feline-inspired".

In the comments section of the article, one user posted a single word response referring to a part of a woman's anatomy. Of course, the site's moderators quickly deleted the comment but it soon reappeared - obviously this juvenile was intent on having their say.

A guy's sitting on a plane and - HOLY SMOKE - the POPE is in the next seat!

Not wanting to disturb his Holyness, the guy discretely looks, and sees the pope is engrossed in a crossword puzzle.

A minute later, the pope clears his throat and says "Excuse me, do you know a 4-letter word for a woman that ends in 'u-n-t'"?

The guy turns red, embarrassed. Finally, he realizes - "AUNT"!

The pope thanks him, then says "You wouldn't happen to have an eraser?"

Re:Pussy. There, I said it.

[Anonymous Coward]

. Aside from violating their own privacy policy, he (Greenbaum, the newspaper guy) went counter to the idea of anonymous commenting.

Greenbaum, eh? Figures. Whenever you see someone trying to suppress other's freedom of speech, 9 times out of ten there's a Jew behind it...

What a

[Anonymous Coward]

Pussy

Re:You're fired GPLDAN

[Anonymous Coward]

He's taking over yours, since at least he can spell.

He got it coming

[Hognoxious]

He got it coming

Isn't that the point? Huh huh. Heh heh.

Anyway, how do we know it was a vulgarity? He could have visited Vietnam. Or Korea. Something like that.

Would this journalist protect his sources?

[carou]

Clearly, the standards of journalistic integrity are going down.

Re:Would this journalist protect his sources?

[Anonymous Coward]

I see what you did there, you cunning linguist.

Re:Would this journalist protect his sources?

[need4mospd]

Yes, they're quite clearly still thinking inside the box.

Re:"We reserve the right"

[mbone]

...nor did he use the agreed upon remedies outlined in the terms of service. I guess even the editors don't read those things.

Editors : we are altering our Terms of Service.

Pray we do not alter them any further

Re:Pay back

[csartanis]

Did Kurt Greenbaum rape and murder a young girl in 1990? Heh, just kidding!

Re:Kurt Greenbaum, you are stupid, puritanical scu

[xtracto]

Excuse my ignorance but, isn't a pussy a small cute hairy mammal?

Re:Puritannical?

[Anonymous Coward]

No (trying again, the first submission didn't seem to work)

Re:Mod parent up and GP down

[Anonymous Coward]

And make me a sandwich, bitch. Seriously, what the fuck is the point of stupid comments like "mod that guy up and that guy down"? First, do you think you have enough clout for the mods to do whatever the fuck you say? Second, it adds nothing of value to the conversation, only the fact that you're a dick, which we probably could have figured out on our own. If I had mod points I'd mod you down just for being a dumbass.

Re:Naughty words, or not.

[ArsenneLupin]

I have eaten many different animals (or at least parts of them), including rattlesnake, crocodile, alligator, iguana, turtle, and many different molluscs, arthropods, echinoids, and whatnot from sea or river. I have also eaten squirrel, bear, dog, and cat. So, I can say I have eaten pussy, and you can interpret or misinterpret it any way you want. Oh, and woof-woof, too.

Yeah, I like Chinese food too.

Re:"Freedom of Speech" on the Internet

[archangel9]

Pussy.

I'm too scared to type that word whilst at work, so I simply quoted yours.

MOD PARENT DOWN

[LanMan04]

:)