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Old 08-24-2014, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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I wonder if it was white people who rioted and she said the same thing would she be fired. Nothing in her post said anything racial.
Of course not; she would have been congratulated by those who condemn her now. I also wonder what the reaction would have been if her employer were a business that didn't receive government funding. Racist is just a code word for Whites who aren't ashamed of the fact.
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Old 08-24-2014, 12:08 PM
 
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A company has every right to fire you over your Facebook post. If you work for a company called "ABC123", and on the webpage, you're listed as a secretary (or even the CEO), someone can look for your social media accounts. And if they find out that you have less than desirable things to say, take raunchy pictures, etc. you make the company look bad.
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Old 08-24-2014, 01:36 PM
 
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Wow! Why does this keep happening? People read these stories, think "stupid person!" then go and do it on their own facebook or twitter accounts. I wonder how these get discovered. Does someone share it? or is one of their friends turning them in? Twitter is open to all, but Facebook isn't.
Friends screenshot it and then post the screenshot on their Facebook, twitter, discussion forum like this one, email it to whoever and it spreads. Nothing you post on Facebook is "private" regardless of what settings you use. Why is this so hard for people to understand.

I don't even use facebook. Never have had an account and haven't ever posted a single thing on FB. Yet, I get screenshots of facebook pages from friends emailed and texted to me of stupid things other friends and acquaintances post all the time.
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Old 08-24-2014, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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Facebook, Twitter -- these are pretty obvious.

But what about... City-Data Forums?

(Not that I would ever say or think anything like what was said in this story.)

Can what I say here be used against me by my employer? My screen name gives me just a facade of privacy or safety. It's a pretty weak anonymity measure.

What do you think?
Not really. How do I find out who you are?

I ask the City-Data administrators. And unless I can produce a court order/warrant, City-Data - which includes anonymity as one of its 'products' - will ignore me. And I can't produce a court order/warrant because, a) I'm not in law enforcement, and b) so far as I can see, you have not posted anything illegal.

Anyway, even City-Data doesn't know who you are - they can only point to your provider, who in turn would have to identify the device you are using, and of course they too are going to refuse to do so short of a court order/warrant.

Now, hypothetically, you post something illegal, court orders/warrants are issued, and eventually the provider in question serves up your IP. Does that lead to you? Probably (though you can go a long way to avoiding this, too, using such things as anonymous remailers).

But that's law enforcement. Unless somewhere online there is something you've left that associates Nepenthe with who you actually are, there is no way your employer will ever link Nepenthe's posted musings with you.
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Old 08-24-2014, 04:39 PM
 
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I try to limit who can see what. That doesn't always work. It helps to try to keep it kind. The only time I'd say "mow 'em down" would be the radical groups that are murdering innocents worldwide.
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Old 08-24-2014, 08:34 PM
 
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Don't post anything on any forum that you wouldn't be willing to have seen on a public billboard on the busiest street in your home town (with your name at the bottom).

Pseudonyms offer very little protection at public forums such as this.
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Old 08-24-2014, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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Friends screenshot it and then post the screenshot on their Facebook, twitter, discussion forum like this one, email it to whoever and it spreads. Nothing you post on Facebook is "private" regardless of what settings you use. Why is this so hard for people to understand.

I don't even use facebook. Never have had an account and haven't ever posted a single thing on FB. Yet, I get screenshots of facebook pages from friends emailed and texted to me of stupid things other friends and acquaintances post all the time.
It is if you don't use your real name...as I've said, several times all over this forum. No employer is going to go through the hassle of trying to figure out what screen name you use out of the billions of screen names out there.
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Old 08-25-2014, 06:17 AM
 
Location: Kennedy Heights, Ohio. USA
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This lady was not only perfectly okay with the indiscriminate killing of people exercising their right to assemble and protest because of a few of them were not acting peaceful but was cheerleading the use of of indiscriminate brute deadly force. Now people are whining because some people found that that morally reprehensible and decided to speak out against what she said which cost this lady her job. I'm sure she will be able to find employment because their is not a shortage of people her are like minded as her.
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Old 08-25-2014, 06:19 AM
 
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What a dope!
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Old 08-25-2014, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences.

If I ever feel like I need to rant, I usually take a moment, sometimes a half hour, and think about if it is wise to write what I was going to write. Either that, or I talk to a friend first.
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