hurray for censorship!

i'm positively outraged. Or at least mildly perturbed. I went into our little break area with the training computers that are available for use at lunch time to play on the internet without looking like a slacker at your desk. This is just like I did yesterday, I logged on, pulled up a web browser, and went to go play my daily SET game, but today I found a nasty little message "Access to the Web address you requested is prohibited based on Company's Acceptable Use Policy."

What? I would understand if I was heading into a chatroom, or something truly offensive - I can even understand that they blocked myspace. But Set? There's also no way to get to Yahoo or MSN's game sites either. And my g-chat has been disabled. I find it amusing, however, that I can check blogs and post myself. Apparently that's not a waste of company time or unacceptable according to the use policy. Yet.

Wow. I used to be very thankful that my company wasn't like other companies that had those types of practices, but apparently the Man gets to keep us down too.