Bloggers alarmed at Scoble’s Deleted Posts, Cuppy’s Coffee situation
January 27, 2007 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
b5media blogger Tris Hussey ( Business Blog Consulting, Homely Scientist ) posts:
Is Cuppy’s trying to stifle bad PR about them?
Guy Pelletier expresses disappointment with Robert Scoble in light of Scoble’s assertion that blogs should never be deleted:
Scoble, say it isn’t so!!
b5media blogger Eric Eggleston (Common Sense PR) posts:
Franchise Conflict Goes Silent – Sinister, or Reputation Management?
Now Public, a participatory news service with over 31,000 reporters in 130 countries, picked up the post here.
Copyblogger Brian Clark added the story to his Scandalous Weekend Links.
Bad PR… both ways provides another take on the situation, courtesy b5media blog Brandcurve.
It remains to be seen who is responsible. The outcomes are the same: self-censorship and distrust of the franchise industry.
Threats of litigation are a normal part of compliance management in modern franchising. In 2004, I felt its implementation.
In this case, suing an attorney such as Paul Steinberg may not stop bloggers.
But destroying the forum of the discussion (Blue MauMau) achieves the same ends.
Free speech is a luxury in franchising: abandoned to preserve your life savings.
Les Stewart, MBA
Robert commented on my post that he could not comment, it has to be legal. Whats next Ford deleting any web site that does not support buying Ford?
Guy
For the record, I can’t fault any of the Scobles for their silence. Any good brother would do the same if put in the same situation. The problem is that they shouldn’t be put in that situation. If this company is helping to restore these franchisees lost investments, they should be stepping forward and taking credit, not usurping freedom of speech.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
I am so really extremly shocked to see all of the post on the matter I discussed earlier are gone. Everything I have posted on this matter has been deleted. Someone tell me there has got to be something I can do about this. Cuppy’s is/ has to be breaking some law by deleting these post and redirecting URL’s. I fully plan to look into this, I spoke to the IT guy At work today and he says it is a break of federal law. That these people seem to just be getting themselves into more trouble. This really has my attention now. And anyone interested in free speach or even the gift we have been given to blog our thoughts and opinions should be deeply concerned by this company’s obviouse attempt at silencing it’s criticts. I can not believe that any lawyer representing this company would give them this advice. I know one thing I am not Scoble , I will set up a 1000 different blogs and let them delete them so that I can sue. Not for money but principal. How dare they think they have some power over the internet.