This is another one of those techno-libertarian ideas that sounds great if you've never had any experience working in a real IT department. Installing unsupport

This is another one of those techno-libertarian ideas that sounds great if you've never had any experience working in a real IT department. Installing unsupported software always results in employees who don't understand where the line of official support ends. You don't want your IT staff troubleshooting third party software or cleaning up after it. I'm a fan of liberal web filtering policies although I do not trust client-side anti-phishing applications. I would feel irresponsible not doing some basic filtering and maybe some targeted filtering depending based on real world usage. I don't buy the morale argument at all because I always hear a lot of resentment along the lines of "oh he's on facebook all day" as a common put down of unproductive employees. And honestly, it's true often enough that people who might not go overboard can get swept up into it. That's bad morale.