Talk:South Pittsburg, Tennessee

More coverage of attempts to suppress online crtics
Coverage at Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-12-17/south-pittsburg-bans-negative-online-comments


 * ''Mayor Jane Dawkins...said the policy was mostly designed to stop people from posting employees’ salary information or police officers’ schedules on Facebook.


 * ''“The first thing everyone wants to say is, ‘I can’t post anything on Facebook,’” the town’s commissioner, Jeff Powers, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press. “Well, you can. Just not [anything] that sheds a negative light on any person, entity, board, or things of that nature.”

Coverage at Consumer Affairs: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tennessee-town-tries-banning-social-media-criticism-121814.html

Coverage at South Pittsburg facebook website: https://www.facebook.com/SouthPittsburg/posts/10152945656769885

Followup coverage at TFP: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/dec/16/residents-strike-back-after-town-bans-negative-comments/278407/

Coverage at the Tennessean (subset of TFP article): http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/18/south-pittsburg-tn-bans-negative-social-media/20581021/


 * ''It applies to all city elected representatives, appointed board members, employees, volunteers, vendors, contractors and anyone associated with the town in an official capacity who uses social networks. The policy says those persons can't post anything negative about the city, its employees or other associates.

Coverage at al.com: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/south_pittsburg_tenn_bans_nega.html


 * ''Examples include posted videos, blogs, online forum discussions, Facebook and Twitter, Commissioner Jeff Powers said.

Coverage at Popehat (I can't make sense of it, but it's provocative): https://popehat.com/2014/12/17/the-statement-of-south-pittsburg-commissioner-jeff-powers/

Twitter parody account: https://twitter.com/NotJaneDawkins

178.38.135.111 (talk) 15:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)