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