Tuesday, 27 June 2006
State Government Blocks Internet Access
« Goodness of Democracies | Main | Treasonous NY Times »Fletcher's administration has decided to block various sites from state employees. In a move to boost productivity the administration is blocking Internet categories such as entertainment, humor, online auctions and blogs.
Personally, I find it dissapointing that this step has to be taken. I feel sorry for my wife who has to have her access blocked, but the reality is that state employees do abuse Internet access. When you look at the top 20 sites hit, most of them are not even closely related to the business of the state. Gaming sites, travel sites, and shopping sites are not being used for state business. It is these people that are abusing the system that have ruined it for everyone else.
Of course some of the reaction to this policy is funny.
"The government is not a private employer, the government cannot decide what content they want to ban," said Mark Nickolas, U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler's former campaign manager and operator of a Web log. "It's not constitutional."
Yeah, right! State employees who are paid by taxpayers have a constitutional right to waste taxpayer money. This isn't about blocking content. It is about keeping state employees from wasting time on sites that have no relevance to their daily work. Surfing the Internet can be done on their time, not my time.
