Back Room
By
Celeste Hadrick and Rick Brand
May
29, 2003
Cut Off
From Web Site
Nassau
County employees no longer can check out online political gossip while
at work.
County
administrators have blocked access from county computers to
Lipolitics.com, the Internet site where visitors sound off about both
Nassau and Suffolk political gossip, rumors and innuendos.
Often
the messages are critical of County Executive Thomas Suozzi or his
aides, but that's not the reason access was cut off, said Craig Love,
director of information and technology.
He
said the county has software "that blocks things generically.
Somehow it detects words, sex words, or things that are not
work-related, and blocks them automatically."
In
this case, he said, his office received a complaint that too many
employees were on the Web site, which was not work-related. "It was
determined by my deputy that it should be blocked," Love said,
because it wasn't work-related. And no, he said, the complaint was not
from Suozzi.
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