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   blankmeyer, Jul 19th, 2005 @ 11:09am

   
   

   Dangers of Web Filters to Business

   The point that a news organization in particular should not be filtering content on their internet makes sense. Since they are providing information out to viewers/readers, why block what information they have access too. I agree, but I think it should apply to businesses in general. Employees need to have access to information in order to do their jobs - particularly in this case (Do they not trust the editor/producer enough to give him unhindered access to the Net?).
   Policies should be established on what is appropriate and what is not, with clear consequences for violation of the policy. Granted there are always exceptions, as would be in this case. Any sort of monitoring or logging would have flagged the editor had he actually been allowed to view the site. Once this activity was noted, the editor should have been able to adequately defended his actions as it was the prudent measure. Unless of course he spent the next two hours browsing the site...
   

    

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   Mike, Jul 19th, 2005 @ 1:08pm

   
   

   filtered at the newspaper

   I know a report for the paper here who says their have a content filter their as well and because the paper is in new orleans their own website is not visible during the mardigras season due to the live webcam and obvious associated search terms!

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 20th, 2005 @ 9:37am

   
   

   what an opportunity

   Everyone knows the most money online is in porn and gambling. Need a few extra bucks? Get paid to slip a porn link into one of your less-viewed stories. Then when there's an uproar, blame your webfilter.

    

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