Banning Facebook or Twitter or any other distractions suggests that you don’t trust your staff to work unless you take away all other possibilities. This is, of course, hopeless, because people are endlessly inventive in the ways they can distract themselves from whatever they are meant to be doing.

I wonder how much as a home worker you are output driven? I often feel that one of the problems we have is that many managers don’t actually know what it is reasonable to expect from someone from a days work, and so rather than setting expectations based on output (something will be done by a certain time/date), they just do whatever they can to ensure people do nothing but ‘work’.

Hmmm…censorship…it’s a tricky one…along with freedom of speech.

I guess the reality is that what we see (on the Web) is often being censored in some way or other, occasionally after its gone online (as in this case) but more often before it goes online. I suppose people feel that the Internet allows access to more people’s voices, more truths, but this isn’t always the case.

No easy answer here…(can of worms comes to mind!)…. I suppose my personal inclination would be to go with Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (I’m sure there are many cases when I’d change my mind on this!)

Thanks also to Steph for the link to his Social Media Test Suite survey – The results make interesting reading.

I understand your point, but that’s not strictly true. See e.g. the recent arguments over an image on a Wikipedia page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/12/wikipedia_is_censored.html

I’m not arguing one way or the other whether the decision in that case was “right” or “wrong”, but people certainly do get to block what we look at while at home.