IIRC, and the details are fuzzy, state employees used to have Internet access -- until technicians doing a routine repair or something reported that someone at the State House (someone high enough up to have a private office) had downloaded lots and lots of porn on his state computer. So, naturally, the state removed Internet access from all employees -- unless they had a permission slip or something from their dep't head that they needed it for their jobs. I wonder if now the state will remove email access and make them go back to snail mail, telephone tag, or carrier pigeon!
There are lots of people who do dumb things on a computer and are suspended—whether it’s their home computer or at work.
We have been talking on other threads about Bernie Ward,
ultra-lib talk host on KGO in San Fran (at one time he
was nationally syndicated, including WRKO). A few years
ago (it’s only now being prosecuted/coming out in the news),
he was doing sexual chitchat online with a woman nearby
and talked about how he had had sex with his son, etc.
Ward then sent pix to the woman, including one with a
woman in her late 30s, a 14 year old boy, and a 12 year old
girl. Woman: topless; boy, nude; girl, clothed—but all
touching each other in a sexual way. And so on. Authorities
traced it to him via his AOL screen name. Now he could be in big trouble (Michael Savage devoted pretty much his
whole show to this last night)
Ward did this on his own computer using an AOL screen
name that could be traced back to him. Another genius.
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2008/02/troubling-new-e.html#comments
(A lib blog but note that it has a link to Savage’s
site where there is a .pdf file of the chat logs.)
Oh, Ward claims he was “doing research for a book”.