It would be best for the company to be able to point to various hours of “acceptable use” training along with “sexual harassment” training, etc. I think that if a company were able to show this training in court along with signed statements from the inappropriate individual, it would be much better protected than the company showing a receipt for a garbage piece of filtering software.

I guess one way to get around this is to just have a white list of “approved websites” because as we both know there is not one single internet filter worth a damn. Then this way employees can just use a site that management deems helpful or appropriate. The only problem with this is that employees will never find something else to increase productivity, or read about a new helpful procedure, etc.

Another thing you have to consider is that the Internet is just a window. Books are a windows, magazines are a windows, phones are a windows, etc. If a company is filtering the Internet to prevent sexual harassment then what about bag filtering, phone filtering, etc, etc, etc.

The problem with monitoring is that it never stops, it always wants more and more and more and before you know it your office, government, etc is spending more time and resources on what not to do then what to do. If you need an example of this just look at our out of control criminal system. Look at how much is spent on “monitoring” instead of teaching. People, business, and governments don’t intend for it to be like this, but before you know it there is no turning back as it turns into a slippery slope that you just cant walk back up.

…..sorry for the long comments I am just a very big advocate of the powers of education over monitoring. As you can imagine I was a very big pain in the a*s for many monitor-centric-individuals while working at a large EDUCATIONAL establishment that took a similar monitoring standpoint.

So yeah it would be great to be able to trust people, but most of the time it doesn’t work.

Yeah you’re right - I came off wrong in my post, I’m not spying on my friends when they use my network. I guess what I was trying to say is that if I owned a company, I’d have safeguards in place to protect the company from employee actions, such as low-level filters that merely block out the basics bad stuff.