GamesIndustry.biz has a story about a Sony employee who was fired for comments regarding the PS3 versus the Xbox 360 in his company blog. He was fired even after getting all required approvals for the post. Basically he said in his blog, that from what he was hearing in the development community, the Xbox 360 was a more capable box.
This reminds me of a move at one of Ford’s plants to ban non-Ford cars from the employee parking lot. This is just another heavy handed attempt to control people body and soul. Now I can understand the desire to pump up your own products, but moves like these are way too Orwellian for my tastes.
So we have another hard lesson about blogging for or about work. Fired SOE 3D artist Josh Robinson puts it best saying, “I guess the new rule for me is, don’t ever say anything at all about anything. Ever… Ever.”