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The Lenahan Effect Meets The Streisand Effect

A law firm tries to punish an online critic Continue reading

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A Ban on Threatening “Spiritual Injury”: Unconstitutional But Ethical?

An example of an ethical law being impossible, thanks to the Bill of Rights. Continue reading

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Ethics Hero: Ken, Popehat Blogger

Ken at Popehat is on a crusade worth paying heed to. Continue reading

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Ethics Hero: David Letterman

I missed David Letterman’s ascent into ethics hero territory. It pains me to admit this, since I neither like nor generally respect him, but that is where David Letterman belongs. Continue reading

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Unethical Quote of the Week: University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen

University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen ratifies the school’s police chief’s decision to remove two posters from a professor’s office door out of fear of a fictional character in one instance, and fear of the truth in another. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “Unethical Business Practices: Online Reputation Services”

Tgt has some uncomfortable truths about the practicalities of taking principled stands, in the context of my discussing the dishonest and bullying tactics of so-called online reputation protection services without specifically naming any one company. Continue reading

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Unethical Business Practices: Online Reputation Services

I am going to dedicate myself to making sure that the public, the media, and the web community understands how many online reputation protection services operate, and to ensure that their reputation online is accurate: they are unethical bullies, whose goal is to limit and warp information, without regard for the truth. Continue reading

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Ethics Train Wreck On Facebook: Jessica Studebaker and the Sneaky Voelkerts

By the time David and Angela Voelkert ‘s multiple deceptions had been sorted out, Angela had been scared out of her wits, David had spent four days in jail, and federal prosecutors looked like they had never heard of Facebook. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”

The Ethics Alarms resident atheist backs graduating high school senior Damon Fowler, voting for “hero” rather than the jerk-in-training assessment of my original posts on the student who got a prayer removed from his school’s graduation ceremony. Continue reading

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Damon Fowler, School Adminstrator-In-Training?

Either by design, bias, or because I was not sufficiently clear (always a distinct possibility), a lot of readers seem to have misunderstood the central principle in my post about Damon Fowler, the Louisiana high school senior who singled-handedly bluffed his school out of including a prayer in his graduation ceremonies. Let me clarify. Continue reading

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