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"Anyone can post a photo and get you fired."

No, the photo did not get you fired, your employer's questionable policies got you fired. If indeed a phallus joke between two persons in a private conversation is not objectionable, why was this person fired?

As I see it here, the more and more "transparent" our private lives become with cell phone cameras and always-on video glasses, the more protection employees need from bone-headed employers dismissing them for reasons wholly unrelated to their competencies performing the job they were hired to do.

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I wonder how long it'll be till we see the first "masked" conference, Italian style. Personal identities concealed! Could be kinda fun actually..

DefCon?

People go by handles at DefCon sometimes, but it usually isn't super anonymous these days especially if you're around people you mostly know. I guess it kind of depends really, if you were to randomly walk up to people and ask them for their name, you'd be unlikely to get it from a significant percentage of folks.

One nice thing about defcon is that people WILL get kicked out for taking pictures of others without permission.

Actually this is no longer true. Last year DefCon recently changed this policy because they kind of recognized the world has kind of changed and moved in a pretty fundamental way and maybe it wasn't the most valid thing anymore.

There's still some sorts of "it's not super cool to take pictures of specific people" vibe going on, but it's definitely no longer a "no pictures allowed" type of situation.

The Chaos Communication Congress, about 30-50% of the space is no pictures.

I don't think it's quite that simple. The employer certainly bears some responsibility, but making a public accusation to thousands of twitter followers can quickly create a lot of pressure on the company to visibly punish the joker.

PyCon's code of conduct specifically says "Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community."

So... while I'm almost reluctant to even know because it feeds into a mob mentality we've already seen, what was the company that did the actual firing?

Hmm he may have grounds for a lawsuit for wrongful termination then?

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