{"id":13668,"date":"2014-04-09T05:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T05:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2014-04-09T05:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T05:44:17","slug":"ericsson-fires-victim-of-violent-black-crime-for-k-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13668","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson fires victim of violent black crime for K-word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/basson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13669\" alt=\"basson\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/basson-245x300.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/basson-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/basson.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 85vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>Telecommunications firm Ericsson has fired a worker who used the word &#8220;kaffir&#8221; in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweet from the account of Vivienne Basson used the word while expressing frustration over a taxi accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tweet went on to say, &#8220;These savages don&#8217;t deserve to live. They can rot in hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ericsson South Africa M.D Magnus Mchunguzi says Basson who was a sub-contractor, has breached their business ethics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social Networks may seem to many as lawless, but World Wide Worx Technology expert, Arthur Goldstuck says people may be prosecuted for hate speech posted online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also says the law on social networks applies as it would in other public spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social network leaves a pure trail of evidence as numerous people can copy it and save it for the whole world to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goldstuck says once you put something up online, it can never be entirely deleted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basson explained on twitter what led to her offensive speech before apologising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ericsson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13670\" alt=\"ericsson\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ericsson-241x300.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ericsson-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ericsson.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 85vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications firm Ericsson has fired a worker who used the word &#8220;kaffir&#8221; in a tweet. The tweet from the account of Vivienne Basson used the word while expressing frustration over a taxi accident. The Tweet went on to say, &#8220;These savages don&#8217;t deserve to live. They can rot in hell.&#8221; Ericsson South Africa M.D Magnus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ericsson fires victim of violent black crime for K-word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1768,501,1345,261,2794,1767,2169],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-racism","tag-hate-crime","tag-hate-speech","tag-kaffir","tag-tweet","tag-violent-crime","tag-white-victims"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/basson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13672,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}