Among the advantages of social networks are that anybody know what they need without anxiety about censorship... Well, theoretically, a minimum of. But based on Gambling running back Rashard Mendenhall, that isn't always true within the real life, and he's filed a suit to safeguard free speech in 140 character portions.
Mendenhall is suing Hanesbrands, Corporation. after the organization ended his endorsement deal following a number of tweets about Osama Bin Laden by which he requested "What type of person remembers dying Simply mind boggling how people can HATE a guy they've never even heard speak. We have only heard one for reds."
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The organization alleged the tweets fell foul of the morality clause within the contract, but Mendenhall's suit disagrees, explaining the situation centers around "the core question of whether a sports athlete employed like a celebrity endorser manages to lose the authority to express opinions due to the fact the organization whose items he encourages might disagree with a few (although not all) of those opinions."
The liberty to tweet or Facebook without fear has become an progressively common matter nowadays (think about the Connected Press recommendations) so it will be interesting to determine how this situation works out, and whether social networking will end up increasingly more restricted for anybody who would like to say the things they think.
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Graeme McMillan is really a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You may also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page as well as on Twitter at @TIME.
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