Blogging Compromise: I Failed
I hate compromise. I try to blog with conviction, and not let anything stop me from saying what I believe. I have avoided this, my personal blog, because I knew that I was being forced to not say what I really want. I have always been pretty confident that everything I write on my blogs is protected by freedom of speech. I still do, but I had the first legal encounter with someone threatening me because of what I wrote. It is a relatively harmless situation, and I am kind of a wuss for backing down so easily, but the stupid thing has been on my mind for about a week now, and I just want to get it behind me. You can read the nasty letter here if you want the dirty details. I can’t tell you how much better I feel just for publishing the lawyer’s letter, even if I stripped out the names. I think that was the best thing to do, but it is still a compromise, and it stings. Part of my wussyness has to do with the fact that I don’t want to make a scene since I still work for the agency where I did the work in question. Job security aside, the blogger in me just wants to paint it in the sky and really make them pay. But I didn’t. I compromised. I backed down. I gave the faceless corporation a pass. I failed. Please forgive me for my compromise, and I promise to never do it again. I hope.
