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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 02:27 PM Jun 2012

The Times they are a changin' Some observations today getting oil changed

I always go to the dealer we got our vehicle from.

Used to, Faux snooze was the channel on the provided TV in the "lounge" The three computers provided would never go to DU but went to conservative sites.


TODAY however,

The TV was on Headline news. Not much better but better. AFter watching it for a little while, the service man came to tell me we had a nail in our back tire, but since we bought the tires there as well, they would fix it for free.

Visited the computer and first place I tried to go was DU and it came up. I cruised around for a while and read the latest news then tried to go to some conservative sites and got a blocking message saying the "rules of the network" prohibitted those particular sites.


Quite a difference!!!

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The Times they are a changin' Some observations today getting oil changed (Original Post) demtenjeep Jun 2012 OP
If they're censoring any sites based on political content xfundy Jun 2012 #1
it is their network, they can block any sites they want. It is a job network demtenjeep Jun 2012 #2
My network blocks the BBC Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #15
I totally agree with you. Funny that you mention it. I went to the doctors office a few southernyankeebelle Jun 2012 #4
Yes that is good in a way nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #3
I am sure that had I brought my own laptop, with the free Wifi I could have gone anyplace I wanted demtenjeep Jun 2012 #5
I understand, but either block access to all political sites nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #8
not really demtenjeep Jun 2012 #9
You really think most costumers understand this is an intranet nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #10
censorship is Bellerophon Jun 2012 #11
nope it probably was not or will not ever be noticed demtenjeep Jun 2012 #12
additionally, I never complained to the dealership when I couldn't log on to DU demtenjeep Jun 2012 #14
I made a stink at my bank Ship of Fools Jun 2012 #6
there's a downtown (chicago) ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #7
If you're gonna use a music reference, include the source... pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #13
awesome demtenjeep Jun 2012 #16
 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
2. it is their network, they can block any sites they want. It is a job network
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jun 2012

Our Network at my work blocks MANY sites



 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
4. I totally agree with you. Funny that you mention it. I went to the doctors office a few
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 02:59 PM
Jun 2012

months back. They had on Fox News. No one else was in there and I asked if I could change the channel. She said no that the boss wanted the station on Fox all day long. Well we had to go back for a follow up a couple of months later and they had it on a different channel all together. It was really nice.

 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
5. I am sure that had I brought my own laptop, with the free Wifi I could have gone anyplace I wanted
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:02 PM
Jun 2012

but this was their computer Kiosk. Employees and customers use it. Their right to block anything

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
8. I understand, but either block access to all political sites
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:30 PM
Jun 2012

or to none... it is a PR issue, where the public is involved.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
10. You really think most costumers understand this is an intranet
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 04:16 PM
Jun 2012

You really believe that?

The cursing at my local dealership when they blocked free republic but NOT DU was to behold. That customer left, permanently...

That is what I mean by PR. That person, who did not understand the first thing of the net, would have been perfectly fine if NEITHER was allowed access to.

 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
14. additionally, I never complained to the dealership when I couldn't log on to DU
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 11:07 PM
Jun 2012

I just reasoned that they didn't have to provide them at all

Ship of Fools

(1,453 posts)
6. I made a stink at my bank
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:11 PM
Jun 2012

for airing FOX all the time. I made sure everyone could hear it,
and as I was walking out, I said that FOX was NOT a *fair/balanced*
news station but a propaganda broadcasting station. This was a few days
before Rushbo aimed his spittle at Sandra Fluke.

A few days AFTER Rushbo aimed his spittle at Sandra Fluke, I was back in
the bank for some reason or other. Their station was tuned to HLN.

I'm of the mind to think that the Sandra Fluke attacks turned a LOT of
people off to Rushbo as well as the FOX machine. Significant numbers of people?
Probably not...



edited for clarity

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
7. there's a downtown (chicago)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 03:30 PM
Jun 2012

restaurant that is convenient to the court house, and lots of attorneys gather there. For quite some time, Fox has been blaring on the teevee. Finally, I complained. The owner said he wasn't going to change it. Then a few more customers joined in, until finally, everyone sitting around the bar agreed that anything would be better than Fox. Even watching a Flubs misfield and swing wildly at curve balls.

He no longer has Fox on.

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