Bloggers as Persuasion Mobs

February 15, 2005

Eugene Volokh has an excellent post on bloggers acting as mobs.  He argues that they’re not a lynch mob but a persuasion mob. 

Google Terminates Blogger?

CNET reports that Google has terminated the services of its employee who blogged about his impressions of his new employer. The employee was only on the job for 11 days.  The article goes on to say that under the law in some States (so-called at-will employment laws where the employee can be fired at will or for no reason), the employees are particularly vulnerable to termination for not protecting the employer’s public image. 

It seems to me that there are no similar laws in the Philippines.  Under our Labor Code, an employee can only be terminated for cause which does not (in my opinion) include publicizing embarrassing facts about your employer.  After all, the law on privacy in this country is still in its infancy and employees can argue that the employer has no right to privacy — especially in situations where the employer is not a real person (i.e., a corporation or partnership). (more…)