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Sep 24th, 2009

Following the Daily Mail’s crusade against council employees using Facebook, Sunny, here, (in the comments) thinks it’s time for everyone to write to their local authority to find out how long council employees are spending on the Daily Mail website.

This is what FoI requests are for, isn’t it?

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