On 11/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Why ? Ask yourself, what good does disparagement do.
Depending on your definition, simply informing the public of wrongdoing could be considered disparagement, and that certainly can do some good.
What is the point of continuously attacking people, invading in their private life.
Please stop constructing straw men.
If you have something serious to say and you make your point fine. Writing in a slanderous way is not the done thing and when people who are or were part of an organisation do this, the damage to the people left behind in an organisation is much greater then when an average Joe says or writes something nasty.
That's all a matter of definition. Slander is obviously unacceptable (and illegal). Disparagement is a much broader term.
Also the value of such an agreement is limited. When you have serious things to say and go about it in a sensible way there is little that will stop you saying it. It is not that efficient a gag.
And since, as others have said, it almost certainly wouldn't be enforced, there really is no point.