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+-   NASA Employee suspended for blogging at work-> on Wednesday May 28 2008, @08:49AM BobJacobsen

Submitted by BobJacobsen on Wednesday May 28 2008, @08:49AM
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BobJacobsen writes "FCW has an article about a NASA employee that was suspended for blogging on government time. Seems the unnamed employee's "politically partisan" blog entries were a violation of the Hatch Act. The article ends with a chilling quote from the government's Special Counsel in the case:

"Today, modern office technology multiplies the opportunities for employees to abuse their positions and — as in this serious case — to be penalized, even removed from their job, with just a few clicks of a mouse,""

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