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Unintentional Humor From the Federal Bureaucracy
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SBA
Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:52 AM
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I just read your article on my computer at SBA and was not blocked from any link.
Re: blocking
FedSmith
Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:11 PM
banned and access - it's not just the web
USFS
Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:10 PM
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I was surprised to learn under USDA, certain sites are all ready banned without an announcement such as My Space.com. While I don't really mind that I think it's silly and infantile of the US GOV but it's also another sympton of the paranoid administration. When GW was first elected, the first command to come out to DOI was that there would be NO further contact with any congressional member unless prior approval had been granted by the DOI Director. Yeah - trying to muffle the DOI employee. At least DOI didn't take it so far as to displine any employee contacted randomly by a congressman unlike Homeland Security. Now we have to exist with website blocking. What's next - wire taps on our phone lines at home or taps on our at home internet browsing? Never stop questioning your rights - they tend to disapear when we aren't vocal about them.
Re: banned and access - it's not just the web
US-DOI
Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:15 PM
That's really funny that I cannot view
DOI/National Park Service
Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:28 PM
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I work for the National Park Service, which is under the Department of the Interior and when I tried to hit these 2 links from your email today about:
Humor, of course, is an effective tool and the Interior Department censors have been an inspiration for some artists. See, as one example, this posting as well as the various forms of the suggested logo for the Interior Department.
I get this block from the Department of Interior Security Team:
The web site you are trying to reach may not be appropriate.
Dilbert is Objectional Apparently
DOI, BLM
Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:03 PM
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Like several other DOI employee comments, the links in your article were blocked with an "inappropriate website" message popping up! When I moved from USDA to DOI this past February I tried to receive FedSmith using my agency e-mail address, and when that didn't work, I just changed my FedSmith subscription to my personal e-mail address. I generally eat lunch at my desk and at the same time I check my personal e-mail, so now I read FedSmith at that time.
I have also subscribed to the free Dilbert daily comic strip using my personal e-mail address for several years, and it worked fine (at work) up until recently. Now the message for the Dilbert strip (which I'm receiving in my personal web-based e-mail account) is viewable, however the actual comic strip does not load, and when I click on the "X" where the comic should be, I now get the DOI "inappropriate website" message popping up! That IS going too far!
Subjective banning
BLM
Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:54 PM
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DailyKOS.com and MoveOn.org can be accessed.
LittleGreenFootballs.com cannot.
And I guess it goes without saying that Limbaugh, Hannity, et al, are blocked as well.
Amusing but not surprising!
Uncle shoots own foot again
USFS
Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:02 PM
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Banning the news and comment from the fed work place
will accomplish, if anything, only a better informed employee
after their curious instincts take them to their PCs to see what
all the hoopla is about. It's hard for the left to bear, also, that
conservative talk radio listenership will keep going up too. So,
way to go DOI and others! You accomplish the vary thing you
fear. You demand the best employees but you forget that these
kinds of folks thurst after truth - they aren't dumb!
P.S. I like the logos
Resistance to technology
GAO
Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:32 PM
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This is maybe a little off topic, but you reminded me of an incident from many years ago when someone at an agency we were visiting came to me informally and wanted GAO to put a stop to a frivolous and expensive change that the agency was implementing -- they were changing over from rotary dial to push button telephones. A waste of taxpayer dollars she explained.
I kind of bought into her argument, and filed it away, but before I thought about it again, we were all using push buttons.
Another time at the Postal Service, my boss told me that expensive USPS address readers couldn't read the fuzzy dot-matrix printer fonts that were used widely by computers at that time. He said that we should do a review and put a stop to the wasteful program. Something told me to ignore that one.
Thanks