Posting from home gets workers fired
Social Networking has expanded the reach of employee/employer relations. Two workers at a BC car dealership were recently terminated for making abusive and defamatory comments about their boss on their Facebook pages while outside of work. Yahoo.ca noted that the employee’s boss caught wind of the comments through the extended networks of the Facebook friends […]
Illegal downloading prosecutions over? Think again
If you thought there was nothing to worrying about, you’re wrong. In a Minnesota courtroom this past month, single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was ordered to pay 62,500 USD per song for 24 songs she illegally downloaded from KaZaA, a popular file sharing site. AFP reported that the total fine given was an astronomical 1.5 million dollars. […]
Controversial South African threatens to shut Twitter
Phweeter: an imposter tweeter Julius Malema, the controversial youth leader of South Africa’s governing ANC (and recent hate speech convict), is battling a new front to salvage his reputation – this time against Twitter. The divisive politicien has threatened to shut Twitter down if it does not address the not one, not two, but 12 phweeters tweeting in […]
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