The Miller Test

If you were developing an Internet policy for your company or organization, how would you define content inappropriate in the workplace in email or bulletin boards different than the Miller test?

If I had an internet policy for my company, I would define content inappropriate in the workplace in email or bulletin boards slightly different than the Miller test. The interesting thing about the Miller test is that it establishes that there is no national standard for obscenity. The same thing goes for companies and organizations. Each company may have different standards for what is considered inappropriate. It all really depends on the type of company. So first of all I would come up with a standard code of appropriateness that would be agreed on by the “work community.” If something is brought up as being offensive, an internal ethics committee could check the information that is brought up and vote on the content which determines whether it is approved to be published on bulletin boards. Rather than having three broad categories, I think that I would have more than three but break them down and make them more specific.