More Obama Administration First Amendment Goodness: TSA to block “controversial opinion” websites to employees

So who decides what “controversial opinion” means?

The Transportation Security Administration has taken a bold step forward in securing commercial air, sea, and ground transportation, thanks to a renewed focus on technology.  Are they using state-of-the-art scanners?  Perhaps, but that’s not their focus these days.  Instead, they’re busy protecting their employees from, er, controversial opinions:

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a “controversial opinion,” according to an internal email obtained by CBS News.

The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday afternoon.

It states that as of July 1, TSA employees will no longer be allowed to access five categories of websites that have been deemed “inappropriate for government access.”

What will TSA block?  A few of these make sense, but as for others, well …

• Chat/Messaging
• Controversial opinion
• Criminal activity
• Extreme violence (including cartoon violence) and gruesome content
• Gaming

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Obama Administration Hates Freedom Of Speech and The Press. Clamps Down On Reporters And Military.

The Obama Administration despises the idea that anyone can disagree with it or show the truth, because the truth is rarely what they want people to see.

First, they close off access to the oil "cleanups” to reporters, photographers, etc.

The White House Thursday enacted stronger rules to prevent the media from showing what’s happening with the oil spill in the Gulf Coast.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that evening, "The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches — 65 feet."

He elaborated, "Now, in order to get closer, you have to get direct permission from the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans. You have to call up the guy. What this means is that oil-soaked birds on islands surrounded by boom, you can’t get close enough to take that picture." – link h/t NewsBusters

And now then military can’t speak without permission:

WASHINGTON – Military officials will need Pentagon clearance for interviews and other dealings with reporters, according to an order from Defense Secretary Robert Gates not long after the top general in Afghanistan was fired for his comments in a magazine article.

The order, issued by Gates on Friday in a brief memo to military and civilian personnel worldwide and effective immediately, tells officials to make sure they are not going out of bounds or unintentionally releasing information that the Pentagon wants to hold back.

Military officials will need OK before interviews – Yahoo! News