The Federal Times is reporting on the DOI blog-ban. A spokesman for the Department of the Interior explained that their ultimate goal is to block all weblogs, not just conservative blogs. He gave two justifications for the policy: that blogs are not work-related, and that blogs are offensive.

An objective examination of these reasons, however, shows the blog-ban policy to be wrong. Blocking “blogs,” as if they were the culprit, makes about as much sense as blocking all websites with a ‘z’ in their name, or some other random attribute. Sure, you’ll end up blocking some offensive material, but that doesn’t justify the criterion. I call on the Department of the Interior to rethink this policy.
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