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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Kodak's Official Policy (formerly: Want to adopt)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164909.9006@cs.yale.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan25.130932.10745@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com> <106596@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:49:09 GMT
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- In article <106596@netnews.upenn.edu> rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.214821.29561@Happy-Man.com> Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com writes:
- >>As a shareholder in Kodak, and hence (part of) the ultimate
- >>authority and employer at the company, I thought I should share my
- >>perspective on this.
- >>1. Kodak should immediately fire any employee who criticizes it in
- >>public, except that the reporting of a crime or suspected crime to
- >>a law enforcement agency shall not constitute public criticism.
- >Wanna join the Happy Fascists League of America? Sheesh, man, one
- >does not give up one's civil rights by virtue of employment. If anyone
- >who works for Kodak, from the chairwoman of the board down to the
- >janitor at the truck dock, wants to stand up on a soapbox and proclaim
- >that "Kodak sucks rocks", then have every right to do so -- and Kodak
- >has no recourse. (Assuming, of course, that the person on the soapbox
- >isn't engaging in slander -- but then again, that applies to everyone,
- >whether or not they work for Kodak.)
- >
- >What Kodak employees say on their own time and with their own resources is
- >not the concern of Kodak -- they may not like it, in fact, they may really
- >hate it -- but they can't touch it. If any Kodak employee is disciplined
- >in any way for exercising their 1st-Amendment rights, I would strongly
- >recommend that they contact the ACLU.
- >
- >If anyone in Kodak's management is so brain-dead as to think they
- >can restrict their employee's speech, then they deserve to be
- >dragged through a protracted, nasty, bad-publicity-generating
- >lawsuit that ends with a huge punitive fine. One hopes that
- >the folks running the company have more sense -- and more awareness
- >of their employee's rights -- than that.
- Huh? The First Amendment applies to what the government may restrict,
- not to what private companies can restrict. I signed a non-disclosure
- agreement when I took my current job, and could therefore quite
- clearly lose my job for letting out proprietary information as part
- of my "free speech." I also suspect I could lose my job for publicly
- saying that one of our products(if we sold any) sucks rocks, since
- it would be rather detrimental to our business.
-
- -Ekr
-
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
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