[Full-disclosure] Meet Kurt Greenbaum, Director of Social Media, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Reports commenter to employer.

[Sam Haldorf <sahalderf@xxxxxxxxx>]

I smell a lawsuit coming on for our friend Greenbaum.

"ReadWriteWeb has an article up today discussing an incident in which a school 
employee lost his job after leaving a comment on the website of the St. Louis 
Post-Dispatch newspaper. After the school employee responded to the newspaper's 
poll of 'the strangest thing you've ever eaten' with a feline-inspired 
vulgarity, Kurt Greenbaum, the site's director of social media, tracked down 
the commenter's identity through his IP address and reported him to school 
officials. When confronted, the school employee resigned from his job."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/0526239/Vulgar-Comment-On-Newspaper-Site-Costs-Man-His-Job

The comment in question:

"I have eaten many different animals (or at least parts of them), including 
rattlesnake, crocodile, alligator, iguana, turtle, and many different molluscs, 
arthropods, echinoids, and whatnot from sea or river. I have also eaten 
squirrel, bear, dog, and cat. So, I can say I have eaten pussy, and you can 
interpret or misinterpret it any way you want. Oh, and woof-woof, too."

Chilling free speech? It must invade the privacy of the poster to call his 
place of work over a comment like this.

What Greenbaum did was against the privacy policy of the site:

    "We will not share individual user information with third parties unless 
the user has specifically approved the release of that information"

So should people who run newspaper blogs call up the place of work to report 
they said an innuendo about cats?

http://igreenbaum.com

I'll be the first to say it. Kurt Greenbaum is a miraculous hypocrite who's 
career has basically been ruined. 

He may as well be like Chris Hansen and expose pedophiles. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CgUXWIOLLw

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