Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

It all started when my Internet Company started BLOG as their new feature. I was damn excited about the whole concept, and started blogging on all topics that interested me the most viz sex, astrology, spirituality, religion, corporate hypocrisy, and my male chauvinistic thoughts. I never thought being a male chauvinist was a sin - just that other men don’t accept it, and I do. My blogs instantly got me into controversy from the yang side of the office, and the yin joined them. It was funny for various reasons –

*It was my OWN personal diary, and none was forced to read it. I never spammed their mailbox, nor held a gun on their head to read my blogs.
*I am not Salman Rushdie, who could influence human thoughts to a very large extent, and could sell his books in India in spite of naming a dog Jawahar in his novel.
*Reading all my blogs and then blowing the issue out of proportion showed how jobless they were.
*And lastly I had displayed a warning on the top of my BLOG which said “You are here out of your choice, and not by force, and please leave if you are not matured enough to take it”.
The argument went on for a week, and my superiors got into the issue asking me to remove my blogs immediately. I refused, and kept arguing that, “it is my diary, and it is my own personal space, and none asked you to read it”. They refused to use their logic, and finally when they failed to convince me, they used the most powerful tool they had – THEIR POWER - and I stopped blogging!

I still have my arguments – if weblogs are personal diaries, where in the user writes about his/her day-to-day activities - what if a sex worker or a sex counselor starts blogging from tomorrow? I am sure, you can’t expect a sex worker to write about her experiences with saints, nor you can expect the sex counselor to write about Sanjeev Kapoor’s recipe. If that is the case, will they be banned from blogging?

Post your comments people, just need to know whether I am RIGHT!

A beautiful disclaimer I got from the NET -

"BLOG is a place that encourages free and creative expression, and as in any environment where people are given this freedom, conflict may arise. If an author uses language or materials that offend you, LEAVE. Contacting the person or their isp, demanding they remove the content or change their ways is absurd because you are viewing their content of your own free will by visiting their site. Simply stop going there and you won't have to see whatever it is you don't like about the site."