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Adam Walker was a teacher at Houghton Kepier sports college until September 2007, when he resigned following disciplinary action over his alleged use of a schoolowned laptop to access an online forum where he expressed views "suggestive of racial and religious intolerance".
Walker is a member of the British National Party, and represented them in council elections last year. But he insists he has been the victim of 'political spite', stating: "No other teacher at the school has had their internet use monitored in the way mine was. My real crime is political dissidence."
The offending comments have not been made public.
While teaching involves particular sensitivities, ongoing technological changes mean that workers are in a position to voice their own opinions to more people than ever before.
So how should employers go about preventing this? And to...