Another frightening aspect of the Radicati situation...
Category IBM/Lotus
In the eWeek article Lotus Bloggers and Analysts Brawl, Bogus Postings Alleged, there's a paragraph there that hasn't gotten much attention in many of the postings...
And Radicati said she has sent e-mails to IBM executives, including Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace products for IBM Lotus, urging Brill's firing. She has called for Brill's dismissal in the past as well, in part for comments he made on his blog referring to her company as "infamous."
And since there's strong speculation that Radicati has used aliases to respond to blog entries and harrass others, I think we can include Bruce Elgort's posting where Daniel Johnson (no contact info, and from a Yahoo mail account opened the day of the email) emails Bruce's company asking them to take "appropriate action with such a clearly errant employee".
Am I the only person who finds Ms. Radicati's actions stated in the article reprehensible? Or have we gotten to the point in American society that we can demand that people be fired or replaced if they said something we don't agree with? Are we now legally bound to only say nice things about people and companies?
And would I want to run a company who's main defense against negative opinion is to sue people or ask for them to be fired?
In the eWeek article Lotus Bloggers and Analysts Brawl, Bogus Postings Alleged, there's a paragraph there that hasn't gotten much attention in many of the postings...
And Radicati said she has sent e-mails to IBM executives, including Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace products for IBM Lotus, urging Brill's firing. She has called for Brill's dismissal in the past as well, in part for comments he made on his blog referring to her company as "infamous."
And since there's strong speculation that Radicati has used aliases to respond to blog entries and harrass others, I think we can include Bruce Elgort's posting where Daniel Johnson (no contact info, and from a Yahoo mail account opened the day of the email) emails Bruce's company asking them to take "appropriate action with such a clearly errant employee".
Am I the only person who finds Ms. Radicati's actions stated in the article reprehensible? Or have we gotten to the point in American society that we can demand that people be fired or replaced if they said something we don't agree with? Are we now legally bound to only say nice things about people and companies?
And would I want to run a company who's main defense against negative opinion is to sue people or ask for them to be fired?
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Don't you have a toilet seat to fix?
Posted by Bruce Elgort At 17:14:48 On 09/08/2004 | - Website - |
Posted by Ted At 10:31:25 On 09/08/2004 | - Website - |
TheOldGit
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Posted by Roy Holder At 17:25:46 On 08/08/2004 | - Website - |
http://carpe.homedns.org/blog/carpingon.nsf/plinks/JAKE-63LBUX
Still, I guess this invitation to fire someone is out in the open, unlike the letter to Bruce Elgort's employers !
Posted by Colman Carpenter At 01:54:18 On 09/08/2004 | - Website - |
I still think this is a bit of a storm in a tea cup, but it's fun to watch.
Posted by Carl At 19:26:19 On 08/08/2004 | - Website - |