“Employees would still be allowed to access newspaper sites, daily weather reports and “things they need to have access to,” Midkiff said.”

That’s the thing what I don’t really get. I can spend hours surfing news sites, and can’t really get what is the difference between news sites and blogs.

But, it’s the employers decision what does he allow and what not.

Still, I feel that they should either block the whole net – except for work related content, like .gov sites -, or only block the common sense content – like no Nude girls and such.

But then, they do deserve it, I too think that government employees do have too much free time, and it takes me too much time to get anything from them.
Let them suffer )

The state of Kentucky has banned blogs. Or, at least banned state employees from reading them while at work. Of course, since most people who read blogs do so at work, it amounts to practically the same thing.
State employees will no longer be able …