Hollised

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  hollised /hol'ist/ adj. [Usenet: sci.space] To be hollised is to have
     been ordered by one's employer not to post any even remotely job-related
     material to Usenet (or, by extension, to other Internet media). The
     original and most notorious case of this involved one Ken Hollis, a
     Lockheed employee and space-program enthusiast who posted publicly
     available material on access to Space Shuttle launches to sci.space. He


     was gagged under threat of being fired in 1994 at the behest of NASA
     public-relations officers. The result was, of course, a huge publicity
     black eye for NASA. Nevertheless several other NASA contractor employees
     were subsequently hollised for similar activities. Use of this term
     carries the strong connotation that the persons doing the gagging are
     bureaucratic idiots blinded to their own best interests by territorial
     reflexes.