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Philadelphia Chief Information Officer Terry Phillis told City Council today 65 percent of traffic from phila.gov computers is just people screwing around.

She added that the city now has software to monitor everyone’s Internet account; the city will probably start cracking down on idiots downloading porn at work and hilarious stories of employees fired for porn will grace our TV news channels during sweeps week. That’s all fine and dandy, especially since there’s probably also a large chance the city’s new Internet-monitoring technology Phillis said City Hall “had to go out and buy” won’t work.

Phillis also says she now wants to balance the employees’ right to privacy against the right for the city to not have its employees goofing off all day. I’m no fan of Internet filters (duh) but it seems like the city should have had at least a plan in place to filter Internet traffic if that’s what they wanted to do. Shouldn’t that actually have been done in like 1998?

Maybe, pretty soon the city will be offering free Earthlink Dial-Up Networking. Oh, and thanks for stopping by, phila.gov employees. Please continue to fight the man by visiting my blog as often as possible. It’s your duty as a municipal employee.

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