In an originally-technical topic "
Advice about a new computer", which had wide digressions into the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr, a sequence of 2 follow-ups deserved more attention:
Do not buy Acer, it supports the gαy agenda.
I have trouble believing a Taiwanese company would get involved with "PC" social issues. This seems to be more of an American and "Euro" thing. And, when I do a Google search for "Acer supports gαy agenda" (without the quotes), the results come back to CathInfo and your post.
Whoa! That's
scarily fast crawling of the Web:
Less than 5 hours latency (9:43 am--4:37 pm) in a really huge cyberplace. Is there any reason to believe that
CathInfo has been chosen for, um,
special attention?
What if there were some way for an employer to arrange
special monitoring for your postings by
Internet-forum user-names? Employers can already run periodic searches on employees of interest; but what if instead, the employer could arrange to be
notified by the search-engine? Alas, there already is. If Google doesn't provide such a product, it could be written as a custom 'Web-client program', paid for by the employer (possibly with a fee paid regularly to Google, for out-of-the-ordinary access to its search data).
Just imagine an employer that's eager to be in the vanguard of
secular social policy, and possible reactions to discovering religious images in your cubicle or office. Maybe so discreet that they'd been noticed only after complaints from busybody employees? Might there be a suspicion that you dissented from official corporate or organizational philosophies or policies? You could make a
politically incorrect posting in the morning from
home before work, and find yourself
fired, under various pretexts, before the afternoon was over. It'd probably be especially easy for an employer to do if you worked in customer-service or human-resources (i.e., the dept. formerly known as 'personnel'), e.g.: "Written violation of
diversity policies previously agreed to in writing".
Thanks for the
unintended lesson that one should
never reveal her/his various
Internet-forum user-names to an employer. And perhaps others out there should ponder whether it's really prudent to post on nonwork-related topics from one's work-place, where they're legally justified (in the U.S.A.) in monitoring Internet traffic.