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Bingo. Brinqs to mind Columbia University advising some of its students not to discuss the wikileaks cables since it could hurt their employment prospects. ht

• GHFigs 15y ago
  That advice is entirely to do with the fact that the information was classified and the federal government doesn't want to hire people whose treatment of classified information is to post links to it on Facebook. It is a reasonable suggestion to people seeking employment in government.
  • cma 15y ago
    What about linking to the NYT articles, those weren't any less "classified".
  • nextparadigms 15y ago
    That information was already public. They didn't put stuff on Facebook from their own work documents. It was a pretty ridiculous thing to ask for.
• jbooth 15y ago
  And there's two ways to respond to something like that, you can go along to get along like a sheep, even though you know it's wrong, or you can go out of your way to discuss it since, if everyone's discussed it, then you can't discriminate against people for it.