Well, my employer is me, and I sometimes don't like what I write, but don't fire myself for it.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Following Tom's reference today to the AP Press article: > > > Perhaps people should consider the first few paragraphs from this opinion > piece in today's AP Press before they type onto this board (or any other) these > baseless personal attacks. > > and his comment: > > > Follies of youth can haunt you when they're posted online > > > Coming from another perspective, I pointed out that the article also said: > "Invite anonymity to the mix and hostility finds release in the vacuum created > when shame went missing." > > In light of some recent activity here, just wondering if he might reconsider > the following. > > > > I find the hunt to out Rolemover less than OK. The Courts even recognize a > person's right to post with a pseudonym because of a fear of reprisals. There > is a tradition of writing with a pseudonym in this country, most famously > being the Federalist Papers. To go after him to out him is on the order of > harassing a whistleblower or tampering with a witness. If he or anyone else > commits an act of defamation, then that's different, and thier identity can be > discovered by a subpeona to Yahoo after a lawsuit is filed. I don't expect > most of the board to disagree, but short of defamation, I'd like to respect > people who wish for their identity to remain private. _AsburyPark : Message: > Re: Rev Kev going to HELL!!!_ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/message/20609) 20609 > > > I see lots of name calling below. I promised Jack I wouldn't respond to that > and I won't. By the way, why is it that people with on point of view who > post pseudonymously here get pounded for doing so, but you [AsburyCouple] don't? > I actually have no problem with people doing so, but I thought I'd add some > balance there. _AsburyPark : Message: Re: DeSeno, TCN, Keady_ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/message/19952) 19952 > > > > Our Posts are Googlable: "That's why someone here once mentioned that they > don't want to use their name on this board. A prospective employer may google > your name and end up reading bad things about you that are unfair. It couold > cost you. I've been picking up more and more internet defamation cases > recently. Many people have the concern that message board posts get picked up by > Google. The law respects people's rights to post with a pseudonym for that very > reason. We should probably do that here too." _AsburyPark : Message: Re: > Reminder: Our Posts are Googlable_ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/message/19557) 19557 > > ============================================================= > > > Wish I knew how to connect some of these dots. > > Curiouser and Curiouser... > > ========Original Message======== > Subj: [AsburyPark] Re: What the hell happened to this message board? Date: > 3/11/2007 12:57:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (mailto:AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com) Sent on: > > > > Perhaps people should consider the first few paragraphs from this > opinion piece in today's AP Press before they type onto this board > (or any other) these baseless personal attacks. > > Follies of youth can haunt you when they're posted online > > Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 03/11/07 > > It seemed like a good idea at the time. > > How often have we all pasted that cartoon balloon over the mental > image of a youthful indiscretion? Thank goodness no one had a > camera, we might add. > > Now everybody has a camera, and youthful indiscretions are captured > for all time. And suddenly, we're not so young anymore. > > The MySpace-Facebook-The MySpace-Facebook-<WBR>dot-com generatio > are finding that their silly stunts have come back to haunt them as > they enter the grown-up marketplace. Others are finding that their > private moments are not so private after all. > > Three young women featured anonymously in a recent Washington Post > article told horror stories of their attempts to find jobs, only to > discover that they may have been disqualified by online postings by > virtual strangers. Gossip and graphics included. > > One, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate and Yale law student who had gotten > articles published in law journals, interviewed at 16 firms for a > summer job and received no offers. How could that be? > > It turned out that she and others had been discussed in not-so- > flattering terms on an online message board, AutoAdmit, which is run > by a third-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania and a > 23-year-old insurance agent, according to the Post. The board boasts > up to 1 million visitors a month, and postings can be anonymous. > > And vicious. > > Another woman featured in the Post story is a Yale law student and > Fulbright scholar who graduated summa cum laude. Not only was she > the subject of a derogatory AutoAdmit chat, but photographs of her > were posted on a "hottest" law school student contest site with > graphic discussions of her attributes. > > Not everyone hates to be considered "hot," but this woman was afraid > to go to the gym because visitors to the site were encouraged to > take cell-phone pictures of her. Beware the chatterbox in the shower > stall next door. Another young woman felt afraid when online chatter > about her led to an anonymous sexual threat. > > The tension between free speech and privacy is nothing new, but the > debate has become more complicated by the explosion in video > portability and networking Web sites. In today's uncivil society, > the stakes are high and the rules are low. > > Invite anonymity to the mix and hostility finds release in the > vacuum created when shame went missing. > > Unfortunately for some, employers are now using the Internet to vet > job candidates. They, too, can be privy to those just-for-fun > college forays, as well as to commentary from those with an ax to > grind. > > The Post reported research showing that about half of U.S. hiring > officials use the Internet to evaluate job applicants and that about > one-third had denied employment based on material produced by an > Internet search engine. Could it happen to you? Apparently, it could > happen to anyone. > > Today's college students frequently post their bios with photos on > Facebook.com. Innocent and inexperienced in the realm of > repercussions, they don't hesitate to display their silliest selves, > clothed and often not. > > The generation that was serenaded by Madonna and marinated in sexual > imagery now dwells in a high-tech, freewheeling, sexually explicit > environment where porn is the new risque and everybody's gone wild. > > Ivy League and other large universities frequently are home to sex > magazines featuring students who say posing nude is "fun" and > a "badge of honor," according to last Sunday's New York Times > magazine. What's the big deal? "A body is a body is a body, and I'm > proud of my body, and why not show my body?" asks Alecia Oleyourryk, > co-founder of Boink, a "user-friendly porn" magazine produced by > students at Boston University. > > "It's not going to keep me from having a job." > > Famous last words, perhaps. > > It is true that a body is just a body, and everybody has one. But > those who've lived awhile know that what we "knew" with certainty in > our 20s isn't necessarily what we come to know in our 30s, 40s and > 50s. When you sexualize and objectify yourself, it's asking a lot > that others â" including future bosses â" refrain from doing the same. > > Advice to the young: If you can't imagine your mother or father > doing something, you probably shouldn't do it either. Your kids may > remind you of that someday. > > Kathleen Parker's nationally syndicated column appears regularly. > > > > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0It09A/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! 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