ACLU & Drudge win one against "Big Sis"

[Jeremy]

Unlikely bed fellows. But with Janet Napolitano at the helm anything and everything is possible.

TSA drops policy blocking 'controversial' sites - Washington Times

After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work...

...But the policy itself became controversial as the Drudge Report and a number of conservative bloggers highlighted the possibility that the policy could be used to censor websites critical of the agency or of the Obama administration in general. The American Civil Liberties Union also questioned the language...

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Porn Sites were OK under the regulation. USMB would not be.


Something mentally ill going on in that department.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Honestly who cares? It's not as if you can teach those TSA jackboots anything anyway. They're uneducated fools on a power trip and they should be treated with disrespect at every available opportunity.

 

[The T]

Unlikely bed fellows. But with Janet Napolitano at the helm anything and everything is possible.

TSA drops policy blocking 'controversial' sites - Washington Times

After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work...

...But the policy itself became controversial as the Drudge Report and a number of conservative bloggers highlighted the possibility that the policy could be used to censor websites critical of the agency or of the Obama administration in general. The American Civil Liberties Union also questioned the language...

Really? Interesting...Best not get in the way of the First Amendment...eh?

Now they have every right to bar internet browsing on TSA property and servers...but NOT content which was the crux of the outcry to start with IMHO.