And if he happens to be wrong, and gambles with other people’s reputation, it’s then up to someone else to make the effort to correct him.

Are these the sort of ethics that make for responsible blogging?

You have to be serious, Geoff, and realize that you have more to learn, and look for practical, realistic ways to change the world. And accept that odds are you won’t win, and more likely fail.
But isn’t it more fun to try, rather than put up with these insulting programs and pretensions?
Maybe start by just sitting on your butt and blogging (thinking out loud) about it like I do.
And see where it leads you.
With or without your supervisor’s permission.

I didn’t say shut down the CBC, I said CBC television. You have to read the whole sentences to understand things.

I also think I was pretty clear about the Prime Minister stating a simple truth that caused controversy. It would have been better had he said nothing – that is “remain unsaid”.

And you want the CBC to run like this blog?
God forbid.

Not sure what Kev is on. Free speech has limits.

I think that most CBC viewers would totally freak out if the opinion of the new CBC boss was that he hated television and was going to shut it down.

Even though much of the Parliamentary Press Gallery is totally anti-Conservative, they can’t come out and say it to the public.

Remember the comments that the Prime Minister made about the public service and judiciary being stacked with Liberals who would fight him every step of the way? Although true, there are some things that must remain unsaid.

This is not the US. There is no absolute right to free speech. That free speech is tempered by what is reasonable in a free and democratic society.

You don’t pee in the pool. You don’t bite the hand that feed’s you.

Also, you don’t get prosecuted if you don’t do it, or don’t get caught!

The more I think about this, the more it seems to me that there’s a basic ethical issue here, that in a desperate attempt to appear unbiased, the duty to free speech is being stifled. It’s disgusting. I don’t care if it does turn out to be a draft, the fact that something like this could even be contemplated for long enough to type it out is bad enough. It’s not just about technophobia, or HR/industrial relations, it’s not just a communications disaster (as we prepare to roll out civic journalism projects countrywide, no less), it’s a basic flaw in the attitude to information and access thereto.

I’ve no doubt the usual wingnuts will make hay of statements like this, and call for the Corp to be shut down or neutered as they always do, but the truth is that the people involved in this decision need to do some serious examination of their motives and start making better decisions that serve a free society, because this kind of thing just injures it.

But not the otherwise outstanding Boing Boing.
Their headline declares that “CBC bans …”, while the story below tones the draconian measure down to the word “suggest(“s).
Very silly attempt at reporting a good story.
And the condescending reference to the “policy applies to all CBC employees — including janitors, …” is abominable.
Why not “including the President and the people who wrote the document”?
But let me tell you, you really don’t want to get janitors blogging indiscreetly.
They could really trash the place.
They’ve got the real poop on everybody.