A New York judge has just ruled employees can’t be fired for surfing the Internet at work, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their productivity – he talked about it as an activity similar to using the phone. Techdirt has the details on this. He is to be lauded for his wonderful ruling! Allowing employees to surf the net increases their productivity; it doesn’t decrease it. Those people who surf the net to waste time would find other ways to waste it, so they can’t be used as a reason to curtail Internet access for the productive employees.