Fireman Loses Job After Antigay Facebook Slurs

[davidinalameda]

A firefighter in Bourne, Mass., has been terminated after posting antigay slurs on Facebook.

Richard Doherty, a veteran firefighter of 16 years, reportedly used foul language and bigoted remarks last summer while slamming local police officers, his deputy fire chief, and the town of Bourne itself.

Town Administrator Thomas Guarino said, “Firefighter Doherty has disqualified himself from the ability to serve as a firefighter because he elected to post on the Internet a message that causes the public to question whether he can serve all of its citizens.”

John Ford, Bourne Board of Selectmen, supported Guarino’s statement. “The town of Bourne wouldn’t tolerate that kind of mindset from employees,” he said. We send out a message that we want them to be professional.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20110225/ts_advocate/fireman_loses_job_after_antigay_facebook_slurs_1

[ZombieHorde]

1. Things like this make like Facebook. nt

[toddaa]

2. You left out a word

The suspense is killing me.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I do that often for some reason. The word I left out was "me."

...makes me like facebook...

[toddaa]

3. Despite the fact that I feel no pity for the scumbag

I still don't like the circumstances. Facebook is becoming too much like the telescreens in Orwell's 1984.

[davidinalameda]

5. why

it's no different than if he said it to a friend of his and his friend told someone else

no one is forcing anyone to post anything on Facebook

he did it and he got busted for what he posted

[toddaa]

7. This is why

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/1746256/Employer-Demands-Facebook-Login-From-Job-Applicants
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/22/1517250/Lawyers-Using-Facebook-Research-For-Jury-Selection
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/28/058256/Facebook-Posts-Mined-For-Courtroom-Evidence
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/16/2110254/Facebook-Opens-Up-Home-Addresses-and-Phone-Numbers
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/30/1734249/Facebooks-Like-This-Button-Is-Tracking-You


Social media sites do not care about privacy. The people that use social media sites do not care about privacy. The population is being fed a steady stream of propaganda that privacy and anonymity is not just unimportant, but also possibly criminal. That's the message we get from the MSM about WikiLeaks.

When I put my tinfoil hat on, I believe Facebook and other social media sites like it are being used to train the population into being docile and submissive when the Corporate Fascist State demands to know everything about you. My biggest fear is that Facebook, or something like it, will become a requirement for participating in the capitalist slavestate. It will become the 21st century's equivalent to the credit score.

The anonymity that used to exist before social media and MAFIAA ruined the internet was a brief moment when Hakim Bey's T.A.Z. was nearly realized, but those days are over. The internet is now just a big fucking walmart with security cameras everywhere.

/rant

[davidinalameda]

9. as I said

no one is forcing anyone to post anything to those sites

[toddaa]

10. Facebook is only one facet of the problem

I'm long time supporter of the Electronic Freedom Foundation and the old Cypherpunks. I believe in the importance of people being able to communicate securely and anonymously as a fundamental human right. Those rights are disappearing. Facebook usage is voluntary. It does not value privacy or security, which is why my account gathers dust, awaiting for me to finally get around to delete it. But I fear that its ubiquituousness, along with Google, are breaking down electronic freedom.

[Skeeve]

6. Facebook is like a

public megaphone. If you won't shout it out in the street, don't post it on Facebook.

I like Facebook for this reason. Makes the idiots easier to spot.

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. No facebook is like a megaphone hooked up to 70 million tape recorders that never get deleted.

The difference is with a megaphone, you say it and people either heard you or they didn't.
With facebook, there's a record of you saying it. You can delete it all you want but maybe someone saved a copy.