Wow. Employees at the Social Security Administration were informed on Thursday that new rules forbid them from accessing “general news” websites, including those that have been at the forefront of the reporting on Elon Musk’s DOGE www.wired.com/story/social... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Wow. Employees at the Social Security Administration were informed on Thursday that new rules forbid them from accessing “general news” websites, including those that have been at the forefront of the reporting on Elon Musk’s DOGE

https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-workers-arent-allowed-to-read-this-story/

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chairmanmoet.bsky.social•3 days ago

As if they don't have the internet at home, on their phones, etc...

dizzyonaball.bsky.social•2 days ago

Worse, embassies and consulates in some of the most restrictive countries around the world have had their media subscriptions gouged out. These spotty incels know the value of nothing.

pseudo-bambi.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m waiting for ‘US gov laptop blocked from news sites but full of Pornhub’.
It’s happened in UK.

ako61.bsky.social•3 days ago

Blindfolding the truth.

aktoman.bsky.social•3 days ago

People will just use their phones ... that is how people normally get around sites blocked by their organisations.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•2 days ago

🥴

zcmrock.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this legal?

liberalec.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤯

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•2 days ago

Free speech is a Trump thing.... or was it?

pushkin99.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ain't this free speech wonderful.

mrtmdc.bsky.social•2 days ago

What happened to free speech and freedom of the press in some countries this would be a breach of human rights causing an immediate uproar in the population 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇩🇰
What’s the connection between these countries? They were all occupied in WW2

hididee.bsky.social•3 days ago

hididee.bsky.social•3 days ago

maryhangingon.bsky.social•3 days ago

WTH! Are the hacking into their home computers now too?

icydee.bsky.social•3 days ago

America is truly becomming a dictatorship... and no one from the dems are doing anything about it! :(

jockyfox.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is third reich 101 …

rogersunshinecoast.bsky.social•2 days ago

Free speech!

apwnyc.bsky.social•3 days ago

holy shit

mlkelly.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fascists are running the country now.

andrewsawyou.bsky.social•3 days ago

Isn't that censorship? So much for land of the free.

gec236.bsky.social•3 days ago

Land of the free 🗽🥴

jonnye46.bsky.social•2 days ago

To be fair you can’t access a lot of websites from uk gov computers either.

theangrywrenchspeaks.streamer.blue•2 days ago

Bout time these damn employees started saying

"fuck you"

instead of just caving in like the FEC chairwoman.

intiniki.bsky.social•3 days ago

I worked at a call centre in the UK in 2002 and we weren't allowed to access the Internet at all during shifts. People still did. People got sacked in the office for breaking very stringent rules. I'm not massively surprised at this.

pwrussell.bsky.social•3 days ago

More from the JD Vance school of free speech.

iac90.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope the American people are happy with their new President and his puppet master, Musk. They have now taking control of the key pillars of democracy, Legislation, Executive, Judiciary and the Press. American is fast becoming an isolated dictatorship where its citizens will suffer repression.

jacksprat39.bsky.social•3 days ago

#Fuckingtrump

science-man.bsky.social•3 days ago

History has seen this type of behaviour and it did not end well. Why aren't folk doing something to prevent another Reich?

nordic-lightning.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm sure that's on company machines, not personal. All government machines have this rule, ours does as well.

nordic-lightning.bsky.social•2 days ago

For those that don't want to actually read it.

joolzmadcat.bsky.social•2 days ago

On government time with government equipment. Seems fair as most employers expect the same... UNLESS your job is to monitor and report on what the media are saying. Of course on my time with my equipment I will read and look at whatever the hell I want.

nordic-lightning.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't think the social security office will be reporting on media news. But other places would. I never use our machines for that stuff, always my own phone. And yes, once I'm clocked out ima do what I want.
Sad it's come to all of this

joolzmadcat.bsky.social•2 days ago

I could actually see maybe one tiny office of 3 or 4 people reading the main news sites and passing that back up the chain so the politician supposedly in charge can get their messaging "on point" or at least stay informed of what the opinion is.

adadgaming.bsky.social•3 days ago

And apparently it's the UK that has issues with free speech

billybeans.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, while on the job, on government computers. Nothing to stop them looking at their phones.

ambatchelor.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, those reporting repression should be careful to give full facts. Making it look worse than it is helps no-one.

execrable.bsky.social•3 days ago

What?! Even if they're at home? Even if they're out of the country? Are we going to have govt employees sneaking into Internet Cafes, heavily disguised from CCTV? Are they going to be using nothing other than burner phones as their personal communication devices? They'll be telling them next

execrable.bsky.social•3 days ago

that they have to agree to be chipped as a condition of their employment.

stuart1758.bsky.social•3 days ago

A sure sign that Trump/Musk are losing control.

Good.

oneplanet11.bsky.social•2 days ago

shocking but are we really surprised?

djaymanic.bsky.social•2 days ago

America, land of the unfree, home of the clown.

houdini100.bsky.social•3 days ago

For fucks sake. They are really running scared.
I’m certain within six to eight weeks Trump will issue an Executive Order declaring an end to Social Security.

marsisblu.bsky.social•2 days ago

Doesn’t sound very first amendmentish to me…

pb48.bsky.social•2 days ago

Resist

robinnason.bsky.social•3 days ago

Free speech warriors.

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