They have a group of people here assigned to blocking sites and a full committee assigned to unblocking them (when a higher up requests it I guess).
I have no problem with this (some sites SHOULD be blocked and I know for a fact we have morons in this organization who insisted on surfing porn during the day in public view before we had a filter), however, the logic they use is completely beyond me (or indeed earth logic). For the longest time LJ was blocked (adult/mature content) while AskMen.com has never been. They block Flickr, but 4chan was available.
My other main issue is they block any site that has a "video game" meta tag but everyone else can spend the day surfing NFL.com, ESPN, TSN and any fantasy baseball/football/basketball site they want. So they don't block hobby sites...just MY hobbies.
Re: A little better this morning
They have a group of people here assigned to blocking sites and a full committee assigned to unblocking them (when a higher up requests it I guess).
I have no problem with this (some sites SHOULD be blocked and I know for a fact we have morons in this organization who insisted on surfing porn during the day in public view before we had a filter), however, the logic they use is completely beyond me (or indeed earth logic). For the longest time LJ was blocked (adult/mature content) while AskMen.com has never been. They block Flickr, but 4chan was available.
My other main issue is they block any site that has a "video game" meta tag but everyone else can spend the day surfing NFL.com, ESPN, TSN and any fantasy baseball/football/basketball site they want. So they don't block hobby sites...just MY hobbies.