tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post3691390803098300819..comments2023-12-21T06:35:36.624-05:00Comments on Recursivity: Authoritarian Creep of the MonthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-65584775367121235862009-11-22T20:47:04.091-05:002009-11-22T20:47:04.091-05:00Joshua,
I'm not sure that having someone lose...Joshua,<br /><br /><i>I'm not sure that having someone lose their job for this sort of behavior is intrinsically unreasonable.</i><br /><br />Losing your job for posting juvenile comments on a blog in the "Free Press" is unreasonable.<br /><br />I don't think there are too many of us who have <i>not</i> made a flippant or foolish comment sometimes in our lives - to have people lose their jobs over such a thing is fascistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-81902218387488379522009-11-20T17:26:53.639-05:002009-11-20T17:26:53.639-05:00OK, that's definitely disproportionate retribu...OK, that's definitely disproportionate retribution. I mean, eating cats may be a <i>little</i> weird, but as long as you're not stealing your neighbour's pets to stir-fry, how bad can it really be?Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-30264467592142409342009-11-20T11:30:51.800-05:002009-11-20T11:30:51.800-05:00I'm not sure that having someone lose their jo...I'm not sure that having someone lose their job for this sort of behavior is intrinsically unreasonable. I don't think it is a great idea but it isn't so awful.<br /><br />It does seem to be going overboard to report someone for this sort of comment. But the closing of the comment thread when the reaction got adverse seems in many ways to be the most distasteful element since it shows Greenbaum's complete unwillingness or inability to even deal with the possiblity that his actions were wrong. <br /><br />It seems like a good rule of thumb that when you have a title that has "X of social media" you seem much more likely to be a jackass who doesn't either know or care about basic internet culture and behavior. But that might be a sampling error since people with such titles screwing up will be more likely noticed than people who don't understand but don't have jobs where that matters greatly.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00637936588223855248noreply@blogger.com