According to a CPB source, Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Tien Trung was offered a job by IBM. IBM subsequently has rescinded this offer due to Trung’s free speech activism.

I rarely put forward that I am an American, as it’s usually not germane. But I have to say: Is there no single American company that realizes open discourse is the reason they exist and that every time they help to bury it they take one step closer to their own grave? I’m freaking speechless to add another American company to the gold is better than God group.

For more information on Vietnamese dissidents and Trung, read this Boston Globe article.

Update: Here’s a radio story on this situation by Matt Steinglass on PRI’s The World.