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Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages

Posted by timothy on from the article-summary dept.

ISurfTooMuch writes "If you're a city employee in Anniston, AL, you'd better watch what you say on Facebook. Under a proposal being considered by the City Council, employees would be banned from posting anything 'negative' or 'embarrassing' about the city. Note that they aren't talking about official city pages here, but employees' personal pages. Anyone care to educate these clowns on the existence of the First Amendment?"

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  1. 1st A... by msauve · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're not passing a law, they're making rule of employment. You want a job with us, you don't badmouth us. That's perfectly reasonable, whether a private or public employer. If an employee doesn't like it, they can quit. It's that simple.

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    1. Re:1st A... by maxume · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If I paid taxes in that town, I would be sort of pissed off that the town officials were spending time on something like this, so I wouldn't call it perfectly reasonable.

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    2. Re:1st A... by Goaway · · Score: 3, Insightful

      In properly civilized countries, you can insist on just that.

    3. Re:1st A... by drachenstern · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Or do what I did, and move out of the town.

      8 years ago and counting.

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    4. Re:1st A... by base3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Whatever. This policy brought to you by Anniston, Alabama 36202 still sucks donkey balls. (Put that into your search engine and smoke it, you oppressive gits.)

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    5. Re:1st A... by Stormthirst · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Or, the city could take the approach that anything they do is a matter of public record.....

      Then they can pay me 24/7 instead of 8/5.

  2. Son of a bitch by Vyse+of+Arcadia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's never a good thing to see my home state on Slashdot, let alone my home town.

    I have to say, I don't like this policy. One is not generally supposed to badmouth one's employer, but badmouthing one's government is patriotic and should be encouraged. That's how things get fixed.