Employee Internet access on government-owned computers is always a problem. I gather that most private employers don't mind some some employee Internet use for personal purposes, but the
Taxpayers are often far more demanding than private employers - U.S. Government employees are liable to receive complaints from every citizen of the United States, and from some who are not citizens. If you work for the government, you have the feeling that everybody is looking over your shoulder - so, sometimes you have to protect yourself, to ridiculous extremes. As much as possible, I used my own computer for government work, to make it harder for people to accuse me of misusing government computers.
And then managers make up rules to protect themselves, and it gets worse.
But Bruce, I'm betting those rules didn't come from the Obama Administration. They came from some bureaucratic manager trying to second-guess the Obama Administration, so the Administration wouldn't get on his/her case.

Little did he/she expect that beardedbruce would end up hot on the trail....


-Joe-


Richard Bridge complained about "US based computers and services are being used to send frequent death threats" - true, but I'm sure the computers are not owned by the U.S. Government, which has downright Victorian prudishness about employee use of computers.