{"id":460,"date":"2007-08-28T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2007-08-28T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:29:09","slug":"unblocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Unblocked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got word that Anderson County employees have regained a little freedom in their online reading.&nbsp; A few weeks ago, several local sites were selectively blocked from county computers, including Citizen Netmom, <a href=\"http:\/\/bullmooseblog.blogspot.com\/\">Bull Moose<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomictumor.com\">Atomic Tumor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomiccitytalk.com\/\">Atomic City Talk<\/a> that I know of.<\/p>\n<p>To block nonessential sites from the workplace, while a bit draconian, is entirely within the employer&#8217;s rights.&nbsp; Acting to keep government employees from wasting time on non-work activities is okay too, so long as it&#8217;s equitably administered &#8212; i.e., all similar sites are blocked.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t what was happening at Anderson County, though.&nbsp; While Atomic City Talk was blocked, the Oak Ridger forum was not, with the key difference being that there was a thread on ACT that might be construed as critical of <a href=\"http:\/\/oakridger.com\/stories\/121903\/new_20031219061.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">certain local officials<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:JabbatheHuttROTJ.jpg\">Mushroom Cloud<\/a> was sucking up over at the other place.&nbsp; It was blocking based upon political opinion, not conserving time.&nbsp; At the same time, three local blogs were blocked, while at least one county employee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideandersoncounty.com\/pr4.html\">personal promotional site<\/a> is not.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we&#8217;re back online.&nbsp; Thanks to whomever pulled the plug on that bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got word that Anderson County employees have regained a little freedom in their online reading.&nbsp; A few weeks ago, several local sites were selectively blocked from county computers, including Citizen Netmom, Bull Moose, Atomic Tumor and Atomic City &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}