Comments on: Best wishes, Chris Soghoian http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/03/best-wishes-chris-soghoian/ Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:55:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Graham http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/03/best-wishes-chris-soghoian/comment-page-1/#comment-1619 Graham Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:39:11 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=422#comment-1619 Above points are good, but note that CNET was acquired by Viacom/CBS News not long ago. The mothership company wasn't there when Chris was brought on as a blogger. Above points are good, but note that CNET was acquired by Viacom/CBS News not long ago. The mothership company wasn’t there when Chris was brought on as a blogger.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/03/best-wishes-chris-soghoian/comment-page-1/#comment-1584 Daniel Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:46:28 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=422#comment-1584 To think that CNet would fire such a popular and outspoken evangelist because of a debatably 'factually incorrect' headline is equally ludicrous, foo. Furthermore, the nature of the line "No explanation, but it‚Äôs almost surely because he annoyed some powerful institutions" is inherently speculative, and therefor does not require substantiation. All that being said, I would like to know more about why he was fired, and find it curious that he hasn't been more outspoken about it himself, on his own blog. To think that CNet would fire such a popular and outspoken evangelist because of a debatably ‘factually incorrect’ headline is equally ludicrous, foo. Furthermore, the nature of the line “No explanation, but it‚Äôs almost surely because he annoyed some powerful institutions” is inherently speculative, and therefor does not require substantiation.

All that being said, I would like to know more about why he was fired, and find it curious that he hasn’t been more outspoken about it himself, on his own blog.

]]> By: foo http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/03/best-wishes-chris-soghoian/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 foo Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:48:37 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=422#comment-1580 Chris Soghoian was fired from CNet because he posted an article under factually incorrect headline: "White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints". The notion that he "almost surely because he annoyed some powerful institutions" by writing about cookies is unsubstantiated nonsense. Chris Soghoian was fired from CNet because he posted an article under factually incorrect headline: “White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints”.

The notion that he “almost surely because he annoyed some powerful institutions” by writing about cookies is unsubstantiated nonsense.

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