Approved by Your Friends at ACME Co

So, the idea behind a firm blocking google reader from the interwebs while you work is so that you don’t goof off. They view it as social news mainly because you could get any feed you want and put it in there.

Not that they don’t want you to know the news. You still have access to CNN and the like. But wouldn’t any firm know that CNN has an offbeat section? A conspiracy theorist would say that a business firm would block your custom news source because they want you to view the news that’s been political-class approved. I know better though. They block a custom news source because they know you don’t ever want to read CNN.