October 29, 2003

Blogger Beware

This post lost Michael Hanscom his job. See details here.

This seems to reflect some pretty deep paranoia over at MS. To think, they have smurfs who spend all their time looking for stuff like this to snuff out. Probably a training camp for the ashcroft justice department.

In the meantime, all of you who are not tenured academics or retired MS mizillionaires take note: MS may not be the only employer who might frown on something you say in your blog.

Via Brad DeLong.

Update (10/30): The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on this today.

Posted by Steve on October 29, 2003
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