Only an amateur journalist would offer the public a sentence such as:
“requiring its employees to get permission to express their personal views is absolutely beyond the pale”
It omits that this policy is applicable only in relation to the individual’s employment, while working in the service of the CBC.
It’s actually a very old rule about confidentiality about the workplace, as applied to the medium of blogging.

Blog all you want, it’s a free country.
And the same laws apply to everyone.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The CBC has rights too, or are you proposing that it not have any?
If the CBC were to discipline anyone without good reason, I’d hope there’d be a walk-out.
But if something you reveal by virtue of your employment jeopardizes my employment, then please find a more suitable situation to express your poor judgement.
Blogging is exactly like publishing a newspaper.

The greater the freedoms, the greater the responsibility.

To wonder what’s allowed and isn’t allowed is puzzling.
I had thought the CBC employed mostly adults.

I’ve asked Esther for some specificity on that and she’s going to get back to me.

Tod