Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates.

[DonFerrari]

Scoobes said:

DonFerrari said:

I would bet most companies also ban communication of the work performed inside in any public outlet.

But wellcome to what several classic liberals would tell you. The more power the government have the more power it will use against you.

Didn't we have that discussion already?

Publicly funded research is very different to research and data in private companies.

The research and the data generated at companies is owned by the company as either proprietary or IP. It's funded by the investors of that company and they have the right to see how well that company is doing and get updated on progress of whatever product or service the company provides. 

Public research is paid for by tax payers and unless their are certain circumstances (involved in defence, private company is involved, other legal IP issue) then the information is to be available in the public domain. 

Yes we had... the results are domain of the government (and by the end for the people) so it isn't owned by that particular worker, so it isn't his business speaking about it without authorization

Scoobes said:

DonFerrari said:

After published in any outlet anyone can repass that information as much as they want, so?

Bit of a shit way to do it, relying on other scientists outside of the US to try and combat a false narrative.

And if that was actually effective, what is the point of this gag order?

Actually, thinking about it, this gag order is kinda useless as a number of unofficial "rogue" accounts have cropped up. I suppose we'll see what they do about these rogue accounts but this could end up being a load of hot air people will laugh about in a few months. 

Yes, it is useless. But we certainly need to compare this to censorship because Trump was the one doing it right?