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Why Bans Don’t Work

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Effectively immediately, nothing will be banned.
The Summer of Facebook has brought a new list of social network (sorry Mark, social utility) bans, as well as some fuzzy research on the cost of social networking. Some interesting points:

Does anyone really believe that Facebook al ... Continue reading »

5 comments

  • Meg

    1 year ago

    I was recently surprised, listening to a someone in IT [for a very large corporation], who mentioned that their big employee initiative was to add support for IM.

    This was not a long time ago, this was less then a year ago, and I found myself horrified that they consider this new.

    I am hopeful that IT is learning its lesson and, as you say, realizing that controlling progress by creating bans will not work and will ultimately make them look dumb.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    It's not just looking dumb anymore; it's costing companies. I don't think we can blame IT; they will always take the conservative approach, which is correct for IT. It's management's failure to take a forward-looking stance, rather than accepting the knee-jerk "ban everything" reaction.

    Quoth The Dead Milkmen, "we gotta blow up those things we don't understand".

    Jake
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  • Noons

    1 year ago

    Jake,

    too right, mate. Top post!
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  • Fabio Seixas

    1 year ago

    The other day someone told me that their company bans tinyurl.com. Don't ask me why.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Weird, maybe that has to do with obscuring the URL, if it's internal. I'm interested to hear the official story of why, would be educational.
    Thanks, nice addition to the conversation.
    Jake
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