Free Republic Blocked at DOD sites
Just tried to get to FR from work. I’m at an undisclosed DOD installation. It’s been blocked via firewall rules from work.
How’s that for censorship? Remember, it’s only censorship if the government does it.
I do understand that there is something we’re concerned with called the “Insider threat”, but blocking news sources is dumb and ridiculous. Many of us are already “cut off” from the outside, or limited to viewing only CNN or perhaps FOX (we’re lucky enough to have FOX where I am, but that’s ALL).
Essentially, private email was cut off some months back, that is we can no longer go to earthlink, gmail, aol, or whatever from inside a DOD firewall. To some extent, I can see that, but blocking news sources is a blatant disregard for first amendment rights.
Certainly, one can find a new job if one doesn’t like the rules… but these rules are arbitrary and made up on the fly. I know, I’ve seen the results from inside.
This will likely be my only complaint at this point, and I will take it up internally, but, before they completely block the internet for good, I’m posting this here and now.
You folks out there… if they can make this decision to block certain sites from certain people (I promise you, the FBI and other non-DOD employees still have access to almost everything out there on the internet and DO abuse it) then it is censorship.
