The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) issued a new policy document that BANS PERSONAL BLOGGING without permission by the CBC unless employees hide where they work, advocate no causes and express no political opinions.
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This policy is foolhardy and will not stand up to any legal challenge. Simply because someone is a CBC employee does not mean they have no freedom on off-hours to express any opinion they like. Yes, if they were saying, "I'm saying this as the Host of 'Music to Listen to Music By' or whatever, then I get that. But if they're just being themselves in their blog and have side-mentioned they work for the CBC, that's just not on. Foolish.
Foolhardy, yes, but it remains to be seen if it will stand up to legal challenges.
Mike Elgan
I think that it's safe, there's no reason to talk about 'where' you work, because when you do that, you're making it a company 'thing' not an off-hours, do what you want to do with your own time and rights thing.
I mention work in my own blog, but I never mention the company. And since my previous website was found by my then-employers, I created an anonymous blog so that only people who know me personally, and who I've given the site to, would know who I was. Everyone else knows me as my online name and that doesn't change my ability to write about what I want to write about.
Am I the only one who suspects the grubby little hands of the PMO behind this?
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