Agencies may have to start blacklisting IP addresses for known pornographic websites if a bill introduced in the House recently gets signed into law.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, introduced the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act, which much like sounds would require agencies to block porn sites on their networks – including for mobile, as Meadows specifically mentions “devices.”
He was on Fox News recently and called attention to an EPA employee that admitted viewing up to six hours of porn per day, while on the job, and who had downloaded some 7,000 porn files to his work computer. The employee is on administrative leave, with pay (reportedly six figures), while pending an agency investigation.
The idea sounds clear and it would be trivial to block a few IPs, but it would be impossible to block all porn sites – even if an acceptable definition were achieved – and at that point a new problem emerges of paying government employees to identify and then block porn. Whereas a related problem identified in this case seems to be the difficulty disciplining an employee that flagrantly violates widely accepted workplace standards.
