No web at work?

Well here is one to amaze you all.
I work in the com­put­er indus­try, almost always have, know a shit load about com­put­ers, and lease this knowl­edge to the com­pa­ny I work for for a ridicu­lous­ly cheap price (con­sid­er­ing I free­lance at $100 — $150 an hour).
My employ­er wants me to con­tin­ue to keep my knowl­edge up-to-date, which means read­ing all the press-releas­es and brows­ing all the tech-savvy web sites. How­ev­er, to make this more fun my employ­er has decid­ed I should be using work time to keep up to speed, cause the net at work is not for brows­ing or some such bull shit, instead I’m expect­ed to pay for my own net access at home, and use my home time to keep informed on infor­ma­tion for work. At my own expense.
Bah! If I treat­ed my cus­tomers the way they treat their staff then I would­n’t have any cus­tomers. This all smells very hyp­o­crit­i­cal to me.