International Bloggers’ Bill of Rights

We, the inhabitants of the Blogosphere, do hereby proclaim that bloggers everywhere are entitled to the following basic rights:

FREEDOM TO BLOG. FREEDOM FROM PERSECUTION AND RETALIATION BECAUSE OF OUR BLOGS:

1.) If an employer wishes to discipline an employee because of his/her blog, it must first establish clear-cut blogging policies and distribute these to all of its employees.

2.) Blogging employees shall be given warning before being disciplined because of their blogs.

3.) NO ONE shall be fired because of his/her blog, unless the employer can prove that the blogger did intentional damage to said employer through the blog.

Blogophobic companies, who violate the Bloggers’ Bill of Rights, will be blacklisted by millions of bloggers the world over."

[Bloggers' Rights]

I haven't stopped laughing at this. So companies are supposed to have "blogging policies" presumably to deal with errant employees who are dumb enough to criticise their employer publicly. Is it not implicit in an employment contract that you don't publicly criticise your employer? And why do it anyway? If you're so bothered about your employer that you feel the need to reveal its trade secrets or expose some malpractice, LEAVE, and then do it. Grow up.

11:02:21 AM