If you post harassing comments, this probably should happen. People are going to be concerned about free speech, but harassment isn't free speech, and I honestly don't believe it's a "slippery slope".
Frankly, I'm not at all comfortable with a global media outlet reserving the right to try to get people fired in private for internet comments.
Same thing: the extremes are easy to label. The question is where do you draw the line between showing an ankle or face, and full-out copulation in 4K?
Because I've heard people try to construe both as such.
By all means, delete such comments and ban the offending commenters (or even report them to the police if applicable), but reserving the right to try to get people fired is going too far. Internet vigilante justice is ugly and brutal, and I am not at all comfortable with the BBC getting involved in that game.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2017/04/17/Huffington-Post-...
We can't even hold media, individual reporters or even public officials to account for posting false stories or false claims.
Unfortunately it's not confined to simply "harassment" but anything "offensive, inappropriate or objectionable" by their own wording, which is highly subjective. If there's a legal issue, BBC should contact law enforcement, but beyond that informing others feels entirely punitive.
If anything, this opens up many opportunities of abuse from nefarious and mischief inclined people.
Lesson to take from this is, don't do personal stuff upon work computers period. That should be the take away message about this type of issue. Remember many an employment contract prohibit that and it is often overlooked if not abused, this may just become that abuse nail example you encounter with HR. Let alone the security aspects for you and your employer, your cloud drive getting a malware payload not impossible and vice versa.
Defamation is unlawful and is never investigated nor prosecuted by police.
If it is really that important, the company should just purchase the licenses for their employees, as a perquisite. Then it no longer has the need to police the private lives of its workers, in order to see if they need to be fired for illicit, unlicensed television-watching.
I think the reason this is okay is that notifying a school or employer of your behavior is not the same as persecution.