Comments on: Hey, Tweeter. You’re fired!

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:55:13 +0000

If another comedian had hacked her Twitter account and kept up a stream of jokes during the Logies, I think she might have mentioned that around the time they were sacking her.

By: Andy Smith

Andy Smith — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:40:30 +0000

How did they show that it was her who sent the tweet (rather than someone else using her username and password)?

By: Andy Smith

Andy Smith — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:12:30 +0000

Has she herself made any comment about the fairness or otherwise of her firing?

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:38:12 +0000

It’s not so much a free speech issue – just disappointment with The Age’s management being a little cowardly. By being too sensitive to public opinion, they must surely be blunting the willingness of their employees to take any risks even outside their employment,

By: Rant, Rot and Ruin

Rant, Rot and Ruin — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:23:55 +0000

I don’t see employment as being synonymous with speech, free or otherwise.

“Cultural backlash” is one thing, but getting shitcanned is something else.

By: slugga

slugga — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:22:26 +0000

The marvellous flipside of free expression is that the paper is free to express its right to fire her for being rubbish.

There seems to be a theory that we can say whatever we want without fear of consequence. That’s not what freedom of speech and expression means – there is always a consequence. While we are afforded that freedom and we are protected from certain things, it doesn’t stop others from expressing their own opinion on the matter and the prevailing opinion seems to be that she was out of line.

And she has been for some time now. She was welcome to say what she wants (I do find it extremely curious that they chose this as a reason to fire her) but she also has to wear whatever cultural backlash that came her way.