UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

Yes because people love being told what they can do in there personal life bye the government. Call me crazy but this just might have the opposite effect.

> it applies to all staff including contractors and temporary staff

Don't worry: according to other articles, the contractors will all be gone by 6th April.

Don't use the words Donald Trump

There are plenty of other instantly recognisable synonyms based on his appearance, policies and moral compass. Just sayin'

Only negative ones?

Surely a rational thing to do is to bar all tweets positive or negative. Otherwise it looks like you support him. Surely the HO don't support him do they?

Don't use Twitter

Good advice for HO staffers and everyone else too. Nobody gives a rat's ass about your whining. You're wasting your time and asking for trouble.

Free speech?

I don't think the Govt can have it both ways - either staff don't mention who they work for and so should have the same rights of free speech and criticising nutters as everyone else, or they say who they work for and stick to the official line.

Or have two personal accounts of course.

A. Stating in LinkedIn you're working for the Home Office is now unacceptable.

B. I've already dissed The RugHead on Twitter (or wherever), does that mean I now can't get a job at the Home Office, even as a temp?

Tell the White House...

If only someone would tell the White House

to stop posting tweets that make Donald Trump look like a narcissistic moron.

God bless America

And free speech...

Pretty funny!

In the history of the alliance between the Brits and the Americans, has anyone tried to suggest or enforce something like this?

This isn't flattering for Trump that someone needed to make this an order. Were the negative comments that prevalent they felt this response was necessary?

Does someone not understand human nature.. or did someone anti-Trump suggested this response?

The US Department of Homeland Security is currently using software to scan social media accounts of people visiting the United States (with a low "match confidence" tool, as it transpired). This is just one of Donald Trump's “extreme vetting” methods in order to try and prevent possible terrorists from entering. .

So... if you tweet negative things about Trump you MUST be a terrorist?

So is this that special relationship that I hear about when comes to the UK and the US ?

So it is OK

to tweet The noble Mr. Donald J. Trump is an honourable man. He always speaks the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Free after Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2

I guess...

They will have to move on to expressing the equally unassailable view that our own Denizens are a bunch of clueless self serving wankers instead.

Press Office

Have a guess how many of the above comments are actually planted by the press office?

Re. comments

All of them?

BTW ROFLMAO re. Drumpftwattenfuhrer..

In retrospect maybe sending that congratulatory Email to President-Elect Hillary before actually checking the results on election day probably wasn't a good idea.

Is the "Parallel Universe Defense" actually valid?

The moral is

...Keep your work and personal online existences compartmentalised. they're not saying "Don't saybrude things about Trump", they're saying "Don't say rude things about Trump from an account where you identify yourself as a HO employee", which seems reasonable to me. All my employers have had similar policies for the last decade or more.

(For the avoidance of doubt I think he's a dangerous, corrupt lunatic with fascistic tendencies and a menace to the world every second he's in power )

Only idiots believe whats on social media

Sadly there are a lot of idiots in positions of power.

Trump has demonstrated that posting on twitter and possessing credibility are mutually exclusive.

Trump is descended from royalty...

...William of Orange.

Who uses their real name?

How do they determine the trolls from the real workers?

If I were to say that: "Trump is a vacuous twat", how does one know whether I work for the HO or Bob's Discount Tyres?

It is plain common sense

It is plain common sense not to criticise regulators, clients or customers while indicating your employer.

If you mention your employer, if you mention your professional association, you are dragging them into it.

Much better to have a separate personal account for political comment, preferably using a 'pen name' (pseudonym) that doesn't mention any employer or any professional credentials.

Bit difficult to not post negative things about Trump

For someone who's only been in office for 50 days he's unleashed a shitstorm of either pointless stupidity or total self-serving material so its really difficult to post anything positive about him. Obviously you shouldn't be posting anything as an official or employee or even using your organization's computers but outside of work -- well, he's fair game. I'm one of the sizable majority of Americans who didn't vote for him; having got stuck with him I was prepared to cut him a bit of slack but his actions both before and since inauguration have been so ridiculous that he deserves everything he's getting, and then some. He's an embarrassment. I'm just pleased that all those low information types in the Heartland who put him over the top in the Electoral College are now so screwed thanks to the proposed healthcare changes that they might think twice about what they're doing in the future.

What you should be careful of is organizing anything on social media that could be construed as unlawful. You have to assume that everything you put out on the Internet is public and be prepared to defend anything you write.

Trump May be a Dick

But throwing words like "draconian" around when talking about your employees wish for you not to rock the boat is a bit pathetic.

You have a choice of working for them or not. If you are willing to take the cash from an organisation that supports the start of this century's coming of Hitler then fine, don't then pretend to cry about lost "civil liberties" And if the extent of your civil engagement is social media then......

I hear the same crap when I work with people who are on peanuts filling the same role as myself, either cry about it and look foolish or man up and get a new job.

People bitch about not having choices, people HAVE choices, but generally those choices mean having to actually do more than a strongly worded 140 word character assassination.

Another nail in the coffin

Of the late "free speech". God bless our benevolent overloads.

Sounds perfectly normal

As long as the guidance doesn't stretch to personal accounts (which should always come with the caveat "my views are my own").

"This is just one of Donald Trump's “extreme vetting” methods in order to try and prevent possible terrorists from entering."

Except that it started under Bush and was ramped up a great deal under Obama.

Use quotation marks

They could always take Sean Spicer's advice and put everything in quotation marks. Apparently things in quotation marks don't mean what they say so, for example, tweeting 'Donald Trump is a "paedophile"' is acceptable.