You hit the nail on the head with this one. I generally agree with Lessig but in this case I think he might be expressing a slight Disney-ified paranoia. (It’s an ‘offense to society’ if Easterbrook was fired for criticizing his boss? Please.) Poor guy probably has nightmares where Eisner is chasing him around the deck of Steamboat Willie at the point of Peter Pan's sword.

As an aside, your links don’t seem to be working. For some reason your domain is appended to the front of the link URL.

Yeah, me too. The idea that Eisner sits around reading blogs is ludicrous. I figured it was someone at ESPN who decided that they'd had enough of a headache with that Rush Limbaugh thing and decided to pull this weed before it took over the whole backyard.

I agree about the blog-reading, but in that vein, one notices that he was fired only AFTER this hit the LA Times and the NYT both. It is not too much to suppose that Eisner subscribes to a clipping service including both these fine purveyors of news product.

This is maybe the best take I've seen on this flap, which I just can't stop blogging and commenting about, for reasons I can't really fathom.
One of the most amazing things was how so many raised hue and cry that it was Eisner who fired him, based on, as far as I can tell, no evidence whatsoever. There was, of course, that one piece of "evidence", you know the one, which he has since made disappear just like his archives on ESPN.