Dept of Interior Blocking Conservative Blogs?

Little Green Footballs ^ | 10-11-2006 | Little Green Footballs

[MNJohnnie]

How about Leftist website? My company blocks all such websites since they are considered "unproductive"

[100-Fold_Return]

gotta block the minuscule few conservative blogs so the lieberal blogs, YouTubes, MySpace, podcasts can enlighten the maturing opinions of the young...

[ebersole]

I worked for HCA (you know the one founded by the Frist family) and all conservative blog sites were blocked, yet none of the of the liberal sites were blocked. The blocking occurred during the run-up to the last presidential election and continues to this day. I sent message after message to the corporate office asking why the disparity between conservatism and liberalism. Of course no response

[MNJohnnie]

Just Damn. Simply cannot understand this stupidity.

[Belasarius]

Bummer! I don't know how much you can complain if you are browsing from work. They might have set up some sort of traffic counter. If nobody there goes to Kos they missed it. Of course, how likely is that?

I've often wondered if somebody would challenge me for patronizing right-wing 'hate' sites. I don't think anybody reviews the logs here until/unless someone complains.

[Alas Babylon!]

How 'bout just going to Daily Kos or DU (hold nose!) and find a post were they're cussing particularlly bad (practically any post) with f-words, etc, print off that page, take it to HR and demand they block it or you'll go to EEOC. Or a lawyer.

[Wuli]

Forward copies of this post to every conservative member of Congress and to conservative talk radio.

[Truth29]

This sounds like a follow-on to an Interior IG report released recently that criticized Interior employees for extensive improper Internet usage. Management said it was working on installing blocking software and it sounds like the software has been set in a biased manner.

[lilylangtree]

Look at the blogs not blocked: Democrat Underground, Ariana Huffington, etc. Sheesh! Very telling indeed!

[Rocky]

Management may not be concerned about the specifics. Probably, they just wanted sites blocked that caused a reduction in productivity. Some leftist in the IT department may be setting the agenda.

[xtinct]

Blocked Blogs: Captain’s Quarters, Cox and Forkum, Gates of Vienna, Little Green Footballs, Michael J. Totten, Michelle Malkin, Power Line, Protein Wisdom, Rantings of a Sandmonkey, Roger L. Simon, The Adventures of Chester, The American Thinker, The Belmont Club, The Doctor is In, Wizbang,

Blogs not blocked: DailyKos, Democrat Underground, America blog, Atrios.blogspot.com, JuanCole.com, The Huffington Post, Talkingpointsmemo.com

Could be a traffic issue!! DUmmie blogs not showing up on their radar - not popular !!!

[gcruse]

Uh, Daily Kos has some of the highest blog traffic on the net.

[S.S. Monkeyface]

This is outrageous.

[doc30]

I don't know how much you can complain if you are browsing from work. They might have set up some sort of traffic counter. If nobody there goes to Kos they missed it.

Good insight. ONly blogs that are being read are being blocked. Finding a liberal blog reader is like finding an Err Amerika fan. Take it as good news. It means people are interested in what conservative sites have to say, but not the moonbat sites.

[onedoug]

They should have the Internet, or not. This is censorship plain and simple.

[ebersole]

"Some leftist in the IT department may be setting the agenda."

That is what happened at the local HCA facility when I discussed this with the IT director. He just smirked the smarmy liberal smirk and he said you're the first to notice.

[KarinG1]

My company blocks all such websites since they are considered "unproductive"

Exactly what I was thinking. The mineral managers at the interior dept. are being paid with my money and I would prefer they spend their time managing minerals rather than reading for enjoyment. I don't care if it's Kos, FR or the NAMBLA website, they should be doing that on their own time.

[muawiyah]

This is a federal agency. I suspect the decision was made in the bowels of the organization by career personnel ~ the Secretary of Labor should be informed and asked to remove the offending parties ~ not just get the blogs unblocked, but to fdire the people who undertook such a partisan act.

[muawiyah]

CORRECTION:

This is a federal agency. I suspect the decision was made in the bowels of the organization by career personnel ~ the Secretary of Interior should be informed and asked to remove the offending parties ~ not just get the blogs unblocked, but to fdire the people who undertook such a partisan act. They'll probably argue dollars and cents and conservation ethic. Still that should not stop the Secretary from smacking them silly and out of their jobs.