No playing online poker games, no visiting pornography sites AND no reading political blogs! What are state employees to do now that Kentucky has blocked Bluegrassreport.org from their computers, along with online gambling and web sites of ill repute?

BluegrassReport.org looks at Kentucky politics with an “unfiltered and candid” view. The site had been heavily read by state employees until the New York Times ran a quote by Mark Nickolas, who runs the blog, that was critical of Republican Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher after his indictment in a political scandal. The next day, state employees could no longer access the site, while conservative blogs, such as the Drudge Report, and mainstream news sites were not blocked.

The public interest organisation, Public Citizen, has filed a lawsuit claiming the state cannot block access to BluegrassReport.org. The lawsuit states Kentucky is practising illegal content-based discrimination by selectively controlling employees’ reading material.