Bob Ingle is reporting that the Corzine administration's IT department blocks "unfriendly" websites for being viewed on state computers.
This issue was brought to light by Monmouth County's own Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande who launched the site http://www.stopgovernmentwastenj.com/ for state employees to make suggestions for saving money. Casagrande's site received 100 suggestions before Corzine blocked it.
Ingle notes how his blog has been blocked as well.
As a Corzine unfriendly blogger myself, I'm only a bit surprised by this news. In late 2007 and early 2008 this blog had many, many visitors from the State of New Jersey ISP, especially during the 800% toll incease debate.
That traffic dwindled considerably, but was replaced by a huge increase in after work hours traffic. Maybe state workers find my musings so irresistible that they are reading from home, instead of at work. That is how it should be.
Yet, MMM is still visited daily from the State of New Jersey's ISP by more than one source. Maybe some cleaver state employees found a work around the filtering software, or maybe Corzine had the computers in his office exempted from the block.
I wonder how many tax dollars will be spent by the IT department to find out who has been reading MMM on state computers.
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Its not uncommon for an employer to block websites that are primarily for personal use. Its on their dime and its their computers. I want them working, not surfing. Its the least they can do.
Rick,
It is not common at you employer. :-)
I worked at a company in Morristown that blocked a site that employees could go on and complain about the very company that employed them. It was a privately owned company. I would be pissed too, if my employees did that. Do it at home, but not on the company equipment, or on company time. Isn't that only fair?
I agree, Rick, that employers have the right to, and in many cases should, control web access.
However, I don't see how Casagrande's website is not job related for state workers. It is a good business practice to seek employees advise on improving efficiencies. Evidently, it is not a good government practice in the Corzine administration.
As for the blocking of MMM, I prefer that state employees read this site at home. They can share it with their spouses and children, and still talk about it at the water cooler the next day. :-)
The Democrats in Monmouth County were insensitive enough to put up as their 12th district candidate someone who not only hates Italians, as all of New Jersey found out a few years back, but who makes her living off of blood money protecting the African gold mining companies who are exploiting Africans. This racist actually wrote public relations pieces -- for money (what did she get, 24 pieces of silver?) -- praising the African gold mining companies for the "wonderful" way in which they treated their employees -- employees who are forced to live 15 in a room in run down hostels because they aren't paid enough to afford even a tin shack for their families. Where is the NAACP? Does it do anything other than rubber stamp whatever the democratic party does? Are they such hypocrites that when the democrats nominate a racist they'll look the other way to avoid offending the democratic party or, heaven forbid, support a republican? If the Freehold chapter of the NAACP stays silent on this one, they have lost whatever little credibility they have left, and it's time that organization got new leadership.
The anonymous comment is disgusting. I'm asking the moderators to take it down immediately.
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