Of course, he just got fired. If an officer blogs that Bush is a shithead he can go to jail.

Free speech??

One other note. There is NO presumption of free speech with an employer. Your only protected from the Government impeding on your right to free speech.

With an employer, you have a right to free speech and they have a right of freedom of hiring/firing. Especially when you work in an "employer at will" state.

I meant "you're only " not "your only" before everyone blasts me. :)

How many have been jailed?

I think there is a big difference between complaining about free food and calling your top boss a shithead.

Where do you come up with these comparisions, Kevin?

And, comparatively speaking, Milbloggers do have more free speech than Googbloggers. As Greyhawk points out, haven't heard of any Milbloggers getting fired for complaining about the feed food, have you?

Also, if you want to make your point mean something, compare apples to apples. Otherwise you just sound fruity.

I have an "oops" too. FREE food... not feed food.

Jack: With a 5 minute bit of research you could have found out the entire story. Go to his website at this link: 99zeros and you would have found that he was doing a lot more than complaining about the food.

He freely admits he posted information about the company's financials and about future products. In the business world, that is the equivelant of posting the future battle plans of your battalion. What would happen to you in the Army if you did that?

I tried so hard not to get into name calling yet you call me fruity. What is fruity is that ANYONE would believe someone was fired for complaining about food. In 5 minutes you could have found that it was a lot more than that. Of course, any amount of common sense would have told you that as well.

Remember, Business Week is part of the boogey man MSM.. don't believe everything you read!

I blogged about the Military shutting down blogs back on January 6th. Not much free speech unless you basically republish what the Army PAO says.

Military Orders Blogs Shut Down

Kevin - the only blog you reference in your Military Orders Blogs Shut Down story is that doc's blog - the one that was never shut down.

Here: http://www.67cshdocs.com/Daily_Journals/daily_journal_entries.htm

The doc did put up a notice saying he was being shut down, but the site never shut down.

Blogfree or die:

It was apparently shut down. If you go to the "Home page" of the blog it still says that it was shut down. The page you reference stopped in December without another posting. Could be a google mirror or something but CLEARLY he was told to cease all blogging activity adn CLEARLY he did cease all blogging activity.