48. When corporate intranets are not constrained by fear and legalistic rules, the type of conversation they encourage sounds remarkably like the conversation of the networked marketplace.

The way corporations handle the intranet within their walls is something that resembles a jail or a maximum security prison. They control everything that is happening within their corporation. They control what their employees are limited to talk about and each word that the employees say is intricately looked upon. The employees are not free to do anything that they want because of the constraint that the superiors are implementing on them. They are being threatened and stricken fear for them to avoid spilling out information that might be a part of the life of the corporation that they work for. The fear that the corporations are striking to their employees are very effective. It is effective because the superiors of the corporation are the ones who handle the future of the employees. They can do anything that they want especially the infamous “You’re Fired!” quotation. Employees are afraid of getting fired due to the information that they had spilled out.

Fortunately, there are some brave souls that are confident enough to tell the superiors what they truly feel. They express their feelings about the way the superiors are handling them. They are tired of being treated as machines or robots that are manufactured to do some strenuous works. These brave people wants the intranet to be as the same as the networked marketplace outside the walls. They do not want any secrets to be kept from them and they want the superiors to be transparent. Keeping secrets is something that the web is made to defeat. Keeping information to others is a cardinal sin in the world of web.