However, my main concern is for my aged parents, if they become worried, their health will be badly affected. They have been in the past extremely fearful of this govt – old phobias don’t go away.

It is true for some people, they will choose to remain anonymous because of their employers.

It is sad that there is so much fear and apprehension among bloggers. The large number of anonymous Singapore blogs with credible material is a reflection of the pervasive fear that still exists in our society. Why would anyone who writes well and is able to defend his opinion want to be anonymous?! …Why would I ever choose to anonymously write 700 articles in my blog?…if not for the fear…

My point is, I see blogging, political or not, as a personal past-time. Employers should not mix work with an employee’s personal life, unless that employee mixes his personal life with work.

In the case of your friend, I think what he did was not right. Your Deputy MD is right. Criticizing your employer is not the same as criticizing your govt.

Recently, I have a friend who, in his Facebook account, commented about his employer. He did not mention any names though.

Our Deputy MD had a talk with him subsequently, telling him that should he have any grievances, there are other channels available. His own boss also knew about his Facebook comments and kept a distance from him.

After which, my friend had an argument with his boss. It’s not surprising though, as such arguments were frequent.

Then, his boss accused him of insubordination and transferred him out of the department.

Currently, he’s residing in a new department with the following consequence:

1. His communication with both his colleagues and other staff was minimised.

2. His work cubicle was minimised as well.

3. His workload was reduced to the extent where he need not make any executive decisions anymore.

4. He does not have an office phone.

The issue arises because the proportion of incredible views is often larger among the anonymous than the ones using real names.

I feel anonymous bloggers should do their best to derive points in order to maintain the credibility of anonymous bloggers (never mind that the views may be out of lack of knowledge or contain bad English) and not personally tailgate those using real names and tag people with unfactual, misleading labels, although this is not the case for predominantly most anonymous bloggers.

Of course, the measure of credibility is always subjective. Because I am not referring to the definition of “credibility” promoted by the PAP.

Regards

John Tan not authentic enough– given the way Singaporeans name their kids, you need to have a fake real name like Ignatius Alexander John Goh Ah Meng to be credible.