Now, I know not everyone doing this is doing so for “good” reasons. But the radical in me just loooooves to hear this kind of news:

“This is not just companies being paranoid about blogging, because they don’t understand it,” says Proofpoint’s Crosley. “This is a real enterprise issue, and there are real risks and impacts to the companies. One of ten publicly traded companies surveyed say they investigated the exposure of financial information that was directly relevant to the corporation in the past year. Obviously such exposure can negatively impact the price of a company’s stock, and it could lead to insider trading issues as well.”

Because, you know it’s just wrong to let the Little People engage in such hallowed activities as insider trading. Oh, no, we can’t have that. And whistleblowing? Why, that’s Right Out. We just can’t have the people actually making the widgets and shuffling the papers talking to each other, heavens no.