Does Your Company Bans Blog Sites?

Filed in: Malaysia, Site News, Weblog — March 22nd, 2006

One of my readers, gbyeow (Boredworkers.com), found that his company’s IT department is banning employees from accessing LiewCF.com.

I was browsing Blogtal.com’s ping listing yesterday when I tried to click through to an article at LiewCF’s site about slacking off and working smart. The result was quite unexpected.

My office proxy returned a ’site prohibited’ message. I thought that perhaps it was the keyword combination “slacking off work” that was causing the reject so I tried accessing the domain www.liewcf.com to see what happens. Same results.

LiewCF.com Prohibited

[Read Boredworkers]

My two cents

That’s interesting. I laughed out loud when I was reading the post. I always thought that my website is rated as a “child safe” site. :D

Now, I am curious to know which other companies ban my blog, or those who also ban other weblogs? And, the reason of bans.

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  • cchiuyi

    thats because people waste productive time on reading long entries which links to even more interesting entries. thanks to tags and various wordpress plug-ins. :)

  • cchiuyi

    thats because people waste productive time on reading long entries which links to even more interesting entries. thanks to tags and various wordpress plug-ins. :)

  • Mr. Bear

    yeah, company ban blog sites, thestar.com.my, yahoo mail, gmail, chat/messanger.

    but company provide one internet terminal, to share among 5 ppl, give us usb thumb drive each.

    Thanks to msdn, we hv it available on our intranet. no internet.

  • Mr. Bear

    yeah, company ban blog sites, thestar.com.my, yahoo mail, gmail, chat/messanger.

    but company provide one internet terminal, to share among 5 ppl, give us usb thumb drive each.

    Thanks to msdn, we hv it available on our intranet. no internet.

  • Bao2

    it sux. but hey u get paid (if it is lower than 2K, it double suxs).

  • Bao2

    it sux. but hey u get paid (if it is lower than 2K, it double suxs).

  • http://www.syiok.com/ Malaysia Property

    hehe….yup..i guess a lot of people does that..but ban gmail also harr….there must be a lot of mail to ban then

  • http://www.syiok.com Malaysia Property

    hehe….yup..i guess a lot of people does that..but ban gmail also harr….there must be a lot of mail to ban then

  • Mr. Bear

    yeah lor… my head of IT accidentally sent out an email to a colleague gmail got to answer for breach of NDA… almost kena buang…

    me no tok anymore.. scare kene buang oso :(

  • Mr. Bear

    yeah lor… my head of IT accidentally sent out an email to a colleague gmail got to answer for breach of NDA… almost kena buang…

    me no tok anymore.. scare kene buang oso :(

  • http://cariduit.wordpress.com/ cariduit

    dont browse blog sites if you are not the boss of the company. end of story :)

  • http://cariduit.wordpress.com cariduit

    dont browse blog sites if you are not the boss of the company. end of story :)

  • http://www.johntp.com/ John T P

    I have heard of Companies banning sites but blogs…that’s a different thing.

    Thanks for comenting on my blog…

  • http://www.johntp.com John T P

    I have heard of Companies banning sites but blogs…that’s a different thing.

    Thanks for comenting on my blog…

  • watt

    in my NDA i am not allowed to blog on company products.

    all information on company products must be from proper channels.

    wan to say good things about it oso susah.

  • watt

    in my NDA i am not allowed to blog on company products.

    all information on company products must be from proper channels.

    wan to say good things about it oso susah.

  • http://www.ibnjuferi.com/ MENJ

    Then I guess I will not be working for ANY company in Malaysia :D

    - MENJ

  • http://blog.menj.org menj

    Then I guess I will not be working for ANY company in Malaysia :D

    - MENJ

  • http://domainerblogger.com/ Jason

    Just type proxy and you will surf problem free. There are 1000′s of free proxy sites available.

  • http://domainerblogger.com Jason

    Just type proxy and you will surf problem free. There are 1000′s of free proxy sites available.

  • watt

    proxy? y u think i can still come here?

  • watt

    proxy? y u think i can still come here?

  • http://www.syiok.com/ Malaysia Property

    http://www.anonymization.net/

    this is quite a nice webbase proxy…..but no cookie allowed

  • http://www.syiok.com Malaysia Property

    http://www.anonymization.net/

    this is quite a nice webbase proxy…..but no cookie allowed

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