R0nc0 writes "My company (a Fortune 15 company) has new requisite




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essentiality everyone that accesses the company portal to accept or decline an 'agreement' that governs the use of social networking. It fundamentally states that any seminar of the company or any of the work that you do, whether at the office or at home, must be governed by their rules of social networking. Naturally these rules are that you never say total bad or retard about the company, nor do you say all bad or veto




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about anything. It's presented like a EULA, but if you decline more than 3 times your manager is notified. Naturally I declined it each time until my manager complained to me about all the email he was getting about me not accepting the agreement, so I went ahead and accepted, knowing that anybody who cares would just post anonymously anyway. This is the first time I've run into a forced agreement about social networking, and the agreement is so broad that it can't not impossibly be enforced. I've tried pointing out that agreements like that only drive people away and aren't necessary anyway, but I might as well talk to a brick wall. Has anyone else out there run into social mastery behavioral agreements like this?"

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