OK, now it’s personal.
Since we’ve posted on the Kentucky administration’s move to block state employees from viewing meddlesome, muckraking websites, TPMmuckraker has apparently made the list too (really, it was just a matter of time).
A TPMm reader and Kentucky state employee writes in to say that the state’s Commonwealth Office of Technology (COT) has blocked TPMm – but not the mothership yet.
After posting, I called the state’s tech office and spoke to COT Assistant Director Jim Lydon there, who claimed not to know anything about the blocking. They said they block “a lot of inappropriate business sites,” such as gambling or shopping sites, but that he didn’t know anything about blocking political sites. But he said he’d get back to me.
Since then, it appears the office has got wind that this is a bigger deal. I called him again when I learned we’d been blocked and was referred to the press rep of the state’s Secretary of Finance. I left a message there.
The Governor’s office still won’t return our calls.
