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Had a bad day at work? Was it “Jellyfish Bad?”
6/16/2008 at 03:33 PM

Seen on a forum:

Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
bad day at the office.
I know you’ve been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would
share my dilemma with you to make you realize it’s not so bad after
all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with
a few technicalities of my job.

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Out in the real world, I occasionally get real world comments about the blog. There’s a sentiment held that somehow the comments on this blog can get out of hand. I don’t disagree, but I’ve always felt rather strongly that the first amendment is pretty important, and that anyone who comes to a blog to discuss news and issues is taking that step to exercise that right to free speech. Sometimes that speech comes anonymously. There’s a long history of anonymous speech on the internet. And many issues of privacy that come with it. Huge issues of privacy in fact. Every pixel posted in email or on web sites such as this one, is recorded somewhere. And no one knows who will end up owning that data. Privacy in the age of unknown ownership of data is one reason I tolerate anonymous comments. I wish posters would pick handles, so at least repeat posters can I identify which “anonymous” they are, but that choice is left to the individual who chooses to post a comment.

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