Mint, a joint newspaper from Wall Street Journal and The Hindustan Times, covers Internet Censorship where the employees and employer are locked in an invisible battle for the Internet. Social networking websites are increasingly being seen as a problem in the workplace. Excerpts:
Digital Inspiration is a technology blog that regularly posts ways and means of getting past online controls.
Amit Agarwal, who runs Digital Inspiration, explains: “For instance, you can read your Orkut scraps as an RSS feed without ever visiting the main Orkut site. In case of Facebook, there are services that let you access Facebook via email or SMS.”
The battle to control employee access to the Internet is not one that employers will win easily. That is why, perhaps, ImmersiveX, a Mumbai-based Internet design firm, has tried to rewrite the rules of the game. A recent job posting by the company on a youth job portal had an interesting couple of lines. In the Benefits box, the company has added: “Free Internet! No Orkut blocks!”
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