Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts

justinlindh writes "Bozeman, Montana is now requiring all applicants for city jobs to furnish Internet account information for 'background checking.' A portion of the application reads, "Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.' The article goes on to mention, 'There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.'"

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high integrity

[TheGratefulNet]

quoting:

"So, we have positions ranging from fire and police, which require people of high integrity for those positions,..."

police. high integrity. ...head asplodes.

given that police have to be UNDER a certain IQ (google arond for the connecticut case where a cop applicant was denied for scoring TOO HIGH on an iq test!) I'm not so sure that cops are 'high integrity' individuals.

they need to be able to beat you senseless and not have an issues at all about it. and lie if it means covering for their fellow cops.

high integrity, indeed!

Re:City jobs are a bad thing?

[jaypifer]

Is there any level at which collective action (otherwise known as 'government') is a good thing? What is wrong with city jobs? Would you have the private sector take over all functions of government, on all levels? I would think, at the very least you would be in favor of a public police force to protect your property. No matter how many guns you have, someone has more, and is more willing to use them than you are. Fire departments are nice, too. As are public roads. In fact, I can't think of many things that city governments currently do that the private sector could do better. The private sector exists to give you as little value for your dollar as you can be convinced to accept. The government is an agent working on your behalf.

You make it sound so good. If that's the case then all people should work for the government (otherwise known as 'collective inaction') at all levels. Everyone will be an agent working for everyone else's behalf. There will be no potholes, no fires, and no crime.

Simple, what could possibly go wrong?

Re:City jobs are a bad thing?

[spun]

What YOU don't understand is that many small government advocates DO want to do away with all government, especially regulation of business and all social programs.

America is not necessarily the best at anything, your unsourced claims to the contrary hold no water. what you are doing is simply rah-rah patriotic bullshit boosterism.

If you don't like the socialism that we the people decide to enact in America, you are free to leave and go to someplace without it. Might I suggest Somalia? It is the very definition of 'small government' and aptly illustrates what 'small government' advocates really hope to achieve: the freedom to be gun toting, slave owning warlords, accountable to no one.