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Are apple employees really forbidden from blogging and posting to social networks?

Of course we aren't. Plenty of Apple employees blog about things other than their jobs.

Of course the question everyone is interested in is are you allowed to publicly comment on / criticize issues like Apple strategy, policies and technologies. So are you?

I've never experimented with that boundary. Publicly criticizing your employer is unwise and unprofessional no matter who you work for. I don't imagine there are many Fortune 500 companies where you would last very long doing that.

Yeah of course that's obvious, but is there or is there not a company rule that prohibits employees publicly commenting on company matters like the Adobe guy says?

Edit: I just realized that you're not allowed to comment on it if there is one :)

Right, so blink once if there exists said rule, twice if not. No response and we'll assume the former. /s

What immediately came to mind was http://webkit.org/blog

Of course, they stick pretty much on topic so I'm not sure if they occasionally inject personal opinion...

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