Criticism seems to be something lots of people can not stand, the Vallejo City Manager has barred city employees from access two blogs that report on the city fall into bankruptcy.

SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle says

City Manager Joseph Tanner on Monday added the Vallejo Times Herald’s local news blog and the Vallejo Is Burning Web site to the list of Internet addresses employees cannot access from city computers. “We blocked these because they are political in nature,” Tanner said. “We blocked them because one is an anti-bankruptcy site and the other is a rag of a newspaper.”

The two sites, Vallejo is burning and Vallejo Times Herald have now been ranked together with porn, gambling, social networking and hate sites that have been banned.The city labour unions are up in arms decrying the affront on free speech, the are qouoted on SF Gate

“With this bankruptcy filing, the city declared war on its employees and our contracts,” said one employee who requested his name not be used because of Tanner’s memo. “Now they want the opposition with our hands tied behind our backs and gags in our mouths.”

We, here, don’t think Tanner’s actions will save the city from bankruptcy if indeed it is indeed in the red.