Blog profile: Brands, bridges and bushfires: “As recent US cases indicate, some enterprises have sought to crimp comment made by employees on a personal basis – an issue that we have explored in discussing online free speech. Those efforts reflect community and judicial acceptance of limits on employee statements in newspapers, private newsletters and other fora. They are based on assumptions that staff have some obligations to the particular enterprise, whether the blog bears that organisation’s logo or not.”
Whilst free speech is desirable in an organisation, there are practical limits.