Along with P2P, pornography, and games, blogs are beginning to be banned at workplaces. Wired interviewed a man who works at one of these workplaces, and he says that the corporate firewall now blocks any URLs with the word “blog” in it. The workplace also blocks ranges of IP addresses that are all known to contain blogs.

So why does Corporate America not want blogs available to their workers? Mostly, it’s because they’re worried about employees leaking sensitive company information. But really, this is not going to stop people from leaking sensitive information. Certain blog systems are set up in such a way, where you can e-mail your blog post to a certain address and it will post it for you automatically. Ultimately the only way to stop it, is by yanking the ethernet cable out of the back of their computer.

Even then, the workers can still go home and leak the information, making it ultimately pointless. One of the most famous anonymous-employee-blogs out there is Mini-Microsoft. It is written by an anonymous employee at Microsoft that believes that Microsoft has become to bureaucratic, but still believes that if they work hard they can please customers.

Maybe Corporate America should start using it’s head, and begin realizing that blogs are just methods of displaying information, and a way of practicing free speech.

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