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Social Security Administration Workers Can No Longer Read the News at Work

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Social Security Administration Workers Can No Longer Read the News at Work | Common Dreams

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is this so they don't get any warning when the doge squad comes to clear 'em out?
But… do they need to access it during their work hours? Isn’t this a nothing burger, like with tiktok?
- Restricting websites without a damn good reason is bad practice in IT, as far as I'm concerned.
  If the website causes a legitimate threat of data exfiltration or getting the employer handed a lawsuit (piracy, sexual harassment, w/e), sure, block it.
  But using web filters to solve managerial problems like employee productivity is demeaning to workers and unnecessary overhead on IT.
  Our job in IT, at the end of the day is to improve productivity...sure...but blocking benign websites takes us away from that.
  
  unnecessary overhead on IT.
  If they're running a proper web filter it's a single checkbox for the "news" category
  
  Restricting websites and whitelisting the ones you’re supposed to have access to is literally like one of the fundamental rules of it security. What are you talking about?
  I don’t think this particular case was about security but pretending that block-by-default is not a good security practice is dishonest.
  
  Sooo its a nothing burger?
- "Local news blocked," one employee said. "So if there was a local shooting or something, I wouldn't be able to see."
  Seems like this burger has some fries on the side.
  
  Maybe 20 years ago before everyone had a mini computer with its own internet connection in their pockets
  
  How often does he check the news to ne able to possibly catch that?
  That guy def is not working!
But then how will they learn they've been fired, or unfired, or made head of DOGE without their knowledge? 😔

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