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#283554 - 01/26/17 09:36 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: Bingley]
Mark_R Offline
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Registered: 05/29/10
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The new I've been reading is that the NPS, EPA, and NASA personnel (probably) have opened up rogue, private, twitter accounts. They're continuing to publish what would have appeared on the official twitter accounts had they not been shutdown alongside tweets critical of the current administration.
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#283560 - 01/27/17 01:39 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: Bingley]
bacpacjac Offline
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Registered: 05/05/07
Posts: 3601
Loc: Ontario, Canada
I must admit, I'm quite enjoying watching this Twitter revolt. Politics aside, it's pretty entertaining. Good on them!
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#283562 - 01/27/17 03:34 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: Mark_R]
M_a_x Offline
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Registered: 08/16/02
Posts: 1207
Loc: Germany
Basically thatīs excercising the right to free speech. As long as they do it in their off duty time and do not pretend that they represent the opinion of the agencies it should be Ok to a wide margin.
Anyway itīs good that the official site is available again to aquire helpful information to avoid getting into survival situations.
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#283563 - 01/27/17 03:51 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: Bingley]
chaosmagnet Offline
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Registered: 12/03/09
Posts: 3842
Loc: USA
If I were to tweet something negative about my employer, I shouldn't be surprised to face employment-related consequences. This is even more true if I were using an account belonging to my employer.

However, I work in private industry. Employees of government agencies should, in my opinion, be protected against employment consequences for political speech outside of work.

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#283564 - 01/27/17 04:40 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: chaosmagnet]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
Nobody is being fired yet, or even disciplined, at least overtly. But the handwriting is on the wall -certain topics, like climate change, should be handled with great care. This is an interesting time to be speaking to the public if you are working for the NPS.

I hope no one is depending upon NPS tweets to avoid survival sitautions.


Edited by hikermor (01/27/17 04:42 PM)
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#283592 - 01/29/17 08:57 PM Re: No more tweets from National Park Service [Re: Bingley]
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
there are several "unauthorized" accounts...

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