Saturday, October 21, 2006
Blogs banned at Leinster HouseA well informed individual tells me that all Oireachtas staff were recently asked to sign a new web use policy document which specifically bans the perusal of any and all so-called "weblog" sites.
It looks like blogging politicians like Ciaran Cuffe will have to look beyond the walls of Leinster House for a wider readership.
Of course there's several ways to look at moves like this. One is that employers own the IT infrastructure in a workplace and are perfectly entitled to decide what people can and can't read. The other is that they should recognise that people spend half their waking hours on the premises and as long as the work gets done, shouldn't be so strict about what people read during their breaks. Personally, I've always preferred working for the latter type.
On a related note, a teacher tells me that they recently tried accessing the Department of Education website at work. The school's web filter informed them that the site had been blocked because of "pornographic content".
Categories: Web, Work
posted by Dick O'Brien at 6:57 PM | link |
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