At least when it's the company's internet you're using, according to some subjects in an NPR story. NPR does a great job of explaining the governor of Kentucky's new policy on internet use for employees, and illuminates some of the thinking behind those who believe all business hour use of the internet should be authorized. For someone who gets most of their rhetoric about freeing the internet from sites like Boing Boing, I found it fascinating, and sometimes scary. For instance, one service provider touted their skills at blocking news sites all over the world. For some this might mean keeping workers from checking on Pirates scores or conversations about the Steelers, but the techniques are easily translated to doing the bidding of totalitarians (as I stated, I tend to get my opinions from a fast crowd).
In any case, I'm pretty sure some people in the world don't believe in The Cluetrain Manifesto's 93rd thesis:
We're both inside companies and outside them. The boundaries that separate our conversations look like the Berlin Wall today, but they're really just an annoyance. We know they're coming down. We're going to work from both sides to take them down.Posted by mastr at August 24, 2006 02:32 PM