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Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement

Posted by Soulskill on from the backlashed-into-submission dept.

mcmoodle writes "Bozeman, Montana has decided that they don't want applicant personal information after all, citing a worldwide backlash on the issue: '"Effective at noon today the city of Bozeman permanently ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites," said Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager. ... Kukulski says after a 90 minute staff meeting held earlier today, officials decided asking applicants to provide their passwords to sites such as Facebook or MySpace, "exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." Kukulski apologized for the negative impact the issue has generated from news organizations and blogs around the world.' I didn't have any doubt this would be immediately squashed. Now I'm just curious as to how many personal accounts they actually went through!"

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  1. Why? by meyekul · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why the hell are they using Facebook and MySpace anyway? These are adults, that shit is for teenagers. The fact that they HAVE these accounts should disqualify them from office.

  2. Re:We are the Law by Darby · · Score: 0, Troll

    'm surprised that it was a Montana city that did this, last I heard, there was a simmering anti-government sentiment there, I know a few people that lived in Bozeman, MT.

    No, the right wing nutters hate government that could possibly help somebody. They *love* big government when it's designed to hurt people, or if it's spending us into poverty to blow up brown people.

    It's easy to get confused by their rhetoric, but just look at the last 3 Republican presidents. Record debts for the 2 2 termers and the one termer was that because he got stuck with the bill for Reagan and had to raise taxes to pay it. Paying our debts is "bad government" hence Bush I getting thrown out. Massive spending of money borrowed from China is "good government", "small government" and "fiscal responsibility". It's no wonder they had to get the religious loons on their side with the rest of their hurt people legislation. Those lunatics already believe in far out insanity, so nothing is too ridiculous for them to believe as long as it comes with a heaping helping of hatred.