LUU blow to freedom of speech
Categories: MiscellaneousI thought it was worth mentioning on SoC Gossip that is has now been confirmed that LUU have an anti-blogging policy for employees of the union that prevents them from talking about their job, the union, people they work with or anything in between.
Id like to make a personal and general point that this seems to be a smack in the face for the principles of free speech that every university students union is normally is so proud to support. I urge all bloggers in the school of computing and beyond that you should not allow yourselves to be intimidated by LUU policies. If you want to blog you should feel free to do so. If you are threatened by LUU about your blog we at SoC gossip want to hear about it. If necessary we will put you in touch with the free legal advice you need to find out where you stand.
We support free speech wholeheartedly and are dismayed at the unions policies on this. Please voice your views on this issue in the comments section.
October 14th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
As I stated in the post below where I was dubiously censored….
I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED WITH LUU!!!!!!!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Following a discussion with a member of LUU exec it has now come ti light that LUU as a union or as an employer does not in fact have an anti-blogging policy and that all LUU members employees or not should feel able to blog freely about the union or anything else.
Where this appears to not a apply is with the old bar due to a specific and isolated incident, however the restrictions on blogging topics for old bar employees apply only to the old bar and its employees. Old bar employees are still allowed to blog about other aspects of the union and maintain blogs in general.
This is a positive piece of news for freedom of speech and it is welcomed by myself and all others blogging on SoC Gossip.