Jeff Clemens with a new bill

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Some people have been fired or denied employment because of what they have written on their social media pages. It won't happen if State Senator Jeff Clemens has anything to do with it.  The legislation he backs even goes as far as allowing potential employees to sue an employer if they push for passwords and usernames on their Facebook or other pages.  But who is to say that ferreting out potential whakos is not a good thing?

What about the guy who used Facebook to show his wife's bloody corpse after he had killed her?  Perhaps something would have shown up in his Facebook rants to show how unstable he was. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2008, the latest year for which full data is available, there were 526 workplace homicides, accounting for 10 percent of all workplace fatalities. Included among these were 30 multiple-fatality workplace killings, including 67 homicides and seven suicides.

We even know that Al Qaeda operatives use Twitter and Facebook and use them to recruit. And some of these people live and work in the U.S. The Atlantic reported that as terrorist groups seek to reach a broader global audience, their migration onto social networks has proven to be a challenge for the likes of Twitter and Facebook. While governments want social networks to clamp down on terrorist groups, Internet activists are calling for greater transparency into social-media companies' rules and regulations.

Read about it...--a law to possibly be in effect next October 1. You will be able to rant all you want, lie all you want, threaten all you want and be totally nuts on your social media page.