hollised

/holist/ , adj. [Usenet: sci.space ] To be hollised is to have been ordered
by one's employer not to post any even remotely job-related material to
Usenet (or, by extension, to other Internet media). The original and most
notorious case of this involved one Ken Hollis, a Lockheed employee and
space-program enthusiast who posted publicly available material on access to
Space Shuttle launches to sci.space. He was gagged under threat of being
fired in 1994 at the behest of NASA public-relations officers. The result
was, of course, a huge publicity black eye for NASA. Nevertheless several
other NASA contractor employees were subsequently hollised for similar
activities. Use of this term carries the strong connotation that the persons
doing the gagging are bureaucratic idiots blinded to their own best
interests by territorial reflexes.

