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Whether or not the e-mail address could be found out with "30 seconds of free time and access to Google" is irrelevant. Posting private information about someon
by zippie 14y ago
Whether or not the e-mail address could be found out with "30 seconds of free time and access to Google" is irrelevant. Posting private information about someone violates twitter's TOS and therefore the account was banned.
The fact it's someone who criticized a sponsor of twitter is irrelevant because that account would not have been suspended if an e-mail address (personal information) had not been posted.
- incision 14y agoCommon sense says that published corporate email addresses don't qualify as private. I wonder if Twitter will ban me for posting your "private" Hacker News username?
- zippie 14y agoNot to be flippant but where exactly is the e-mail publicly posted? I wasn't able to find it on NBC's site. I also don't consider my HN username private because it is shown on a public forum (and I understand that it would have been).
- alayne 14y agoIt was on this page at least http://www.fidei.org/2011/06/boycott-nbc-removed-under-god-from.html http://www.fidei.org/2011/06/boycott-nbc-removed-under-god-f... Amusingly, Gary's email address is all over the Internet now. Couldn't twitter have just removed the offending message and saved themselves the negative publicity?
- jonknee 14y agoIt's the fact that they don't enforce this policy that makes it controversial. How about to email Tim Cook about something? Plenty of tweets with tcook@apple.com in them.
- zippie 14y agoHis e-mail is public information - it's widely available on Google. Gary Zenkel's is not. http://searchengineland.com/nbc-olympic-executives-email-wasnt-widely-available-in-google-128973 http://searchengineland.com/nbc-olympic-executives-email-was... Beyond that, how would you like it if your e-mail, home address was tweet'ed out and you were heckled?
- jonknee 14y agoTim Cook's email is widely available because of people other than Tim Cook posting it without asking permission, much like Mr Zenkel. I could guess all the other NBC executive emails too. Since emails usually bounce when incorrectly addressed it's very easy to get the format for any company. The more important information in the Tweet was that this was the specific executive to contact. I might have tried jeff.zucker@nbcuni.com because I didn't know any better. If I was an executive and someone publicized my First.Last@company.com email address I would not be upset in the least. I'd be more worried about the reason I was getting heckled--my job performance.
- pessimizer 14y agoYou, and searchengineland, are fixating on the word "widely." At the last company I worked at, my work email was in a single place - on the site of my company, on the contact page. According to the searchengineland examination of the word "widely" (which I'm not disagreeing with, and I think is a poor choice of words), it was not widely available. Maybe "clearly" available is a better word? But fixating on the word "widely" is clearly a red herring, and is clearly not something that searchengineland is advancing as a reasonable criterion for a TOS violation, and is clearly being intentionally obtuse.
- ceol 14y agoThe parent isn't fixated on the word "widely"— you are. Your entire comment talks about how "widely" is a poor word choice and, in doing so, misses the parent's point. Swap out the word "widely" with the word "intentionally" if it makes you feel better, but don't claim red herring when the word was obviously used in an off-handed manner.