January 08, 2005

"What did Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot have in common?"

Adam Roberts just alerted me to a sobering occurrence in Edinburgh: a person fired after eleven years at a Waterstone’s book store for occasionally writing satiric posts about his work life. (For the full story, and the answer to the question in the title to this post, go to The Woolamaloo Gazette).

Update (9/1/05): Boing Boing blogs the story, and posts a list of organizations known to have fired someone for blogging. I don't know if I'm more surprised about Apple, or Nunavut Tourism.

Update (12/1/05): Interesting thread at Crooked Timber.