Censorship

At work a memo has gone round that everyone has to sign to acknowledge. The memo states that we have one week to go through whatever internet profiles we have (like Bebo, Myspace, etc) and get rid of anything that might reflect badly on the company, or on customers or other staff.

That naturally got me thinking about free speech and censorship and human rights, and it occurred to me that a company is essentially like a miniature dictatorship. In a business, every employee is expected to toe the line, working for the "greater good" of the company. If that idea was put into action in a government, it would be classed as a dictatorship. It's funny that policies that we would strongly protest against in a government, we take as normal in our every day life at work. We campaign for freedom of speech, and then willingly give that freedom up in our everyday work.

So my Bebo page is free of any negative references about Hoyts, and it is also now free of any link to my blog. They'll be monitoring my Bebo (unless I make it private), but they have no links to my blog.


Although of course I wouldn't have anything bad to say about them anyway.


Yeah right.