Question for all High School Students?
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Er dont remember much of secondary school tbh, our computers were old sheds tbh you were lucky if they even turned on.
My college did block virtually everything, the escapist, faceook most forums etc. Having free time was a disaster if you didnt have any work to do.
My college did block virtually everything, the escapist, faceook most forums etc. Having free time was a disaster if you didnt have any work to do.
I think blocking certain websites is just plain stupidity, on a high school you are guaranteed there are some computer geeks who find a way to pass the block... and this spreads fast, since it is common knowledge (atleast in Norway) that school's IT people dont have a very deep knowledge about things.
Luckily, my school agrees with me and nothing is blocked
Luckily, my school agrees with me and nothing is blocked
if a page contains words like "gay" "sex" "homosexual" and apparently "cockpit" it will be blocked
(unless the page has a secured address (https://website.com)which you can use to bypass the blocker rendering it pretty useless)The Escapist isn't blocked (at least page without certain words)
The PC,s are blocked against program,s which is why I bring along my Laptop for games (the only thing my classmates got working past porn sites is a GBA emulator also Java isn't installed on the network) I usually play Half-Life during lunchtime.
The network is a piece of shit that becomes unusable if to many people go online.(for some reason it needs to go through a server two towns over.)
(unless the page has a secured address (https://website.com)which you can use to bypass the blocker rendering it pretty useless)The Escapist isn't blocked (at least page without certain words)
The PC,s are blocked against program,s which is why I bring along my Laptop for games (the only thing my classmates got working past porn sites is a GBA emulator also Java isn't installed on the network) I usually play Half-Life during lunchtime.
The network is a piece of shit that becomes unusable if to many people go online.(for some reason it needs to go through a server two towns over.)
I think MOST educational places in the UK use an Internet Security thing like that.
Most common one I've found is 'websense' which blocks things like games, social networking, message boards and forums, and of course pornography.
I think it's fair enough in normal schools, but it's piss annoying when you're at college doing Computer Programming and Games Development, and you can't search for anything games related.
Most common one I've found is 'websense' which blocks things like games, social networking, message boards and forums, and of course pornography.
I think it's fair enough in normal schools, but it's piss annoying when you're at college doing Computer Programming and Games Development, and you can't search for anything games related.
The Escapist comes through clean and crisp at my school, but they have youtube blocked. And their habit of blocking every single freaking sight that even mentions genocide makes it hard to do a project on the Holocaust, but that is to be expected.
Yep... Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, and Hotmail are all blocked...
...I don't understand why though...
...I don't understand why though...
For a while, I had to use the guest network, which had very conservative blocking; meaning that the escapist and such was blocked.
Now, the regular network has been fixed, and the only thing I know that is blocked is porn. Though my teacher has threatened to revoke internet-privilieges altogether for me if I keep surfing the nets in class.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure proxy-sites are blocked.
Now, the regular network has been fixed, and the only thing I know that is blocked is porn. Though my teacher has threatened to revoke internet-privilieges altogether for me if I keep surfing the nets in class.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure proxy-sites are blocked.
I'm pretty sure my highschool uses a word filter thing for most of it's censors, which is pretty effective, however they do have to go in and manually block sites that slip through the cracks, or unblock useful sites that contain the blocked words. Youtube was blocked up until this year, now it's just restricted, and uses it's own special filters to block videos, not sure how this filter works. Facebook and Myspace are blocked as well.
Also, for most censors like this, if you want to get around them(without using a proxy), just put an "s" after the "http" in the url. Of course, you have to do this for every individual page, so it can get a little tedious if you plan on browsing around.
Also, for most censors like this, if you want to get around them(without using a proxy), just put an "s" after the "http" in the url. Of course, you have to do this for every individual page, so it can get a little tedious if you plan on browsing around.
Everything is blocked in my school, everything. The software gives some pretty fucking funny reasons sometimes, I've seen websites blocked for being 'Alternative news sources', 'unregulated compounds', 'occult folklore and myths' and every website with a discussion board/forum/comments section is blocked pretty much, simply for falling in the category of 'Discussion boards or forums'.
The only video site we could use was some Ukrainian one but it's now blocked also, 7chan worked for a while which was funny.
The only video site we could use was some Ukrainian one but it's now blocked also, 7chan worked for a while which was funny.
For some reason, at the beginning of the year, the censor was extremely loose. Even websites like www.addictinggames.com weren't blocked, despite being a huge gaming website with 'games' in the fucking URL.
Then, one day suddenly everything was blocked. A lot of wikis for games, Flash websites, and sadly the Escapist.
However, everyone knows a way to get onto YouTube (instead of http://www.youtube.com/ it's https://www.youtube.com) and they cannot block it.
Still, it's very loose, but it's annoying whenever I research a war and I'm not allowed on a website because it has 'prohibited guns content'.
Then, one day suddenly everything was blocked. A lot of wikis for games, Flash websites, and sadly the Escapist.
However, everyone knows a way to get onto YouTube (instead of http://www.youtube.com/ it's https://www.youtube.com) and they cannot block it.
Still, it's very loose, but it's annoying whenever I research a war and I'm not allowed on a website because it has 'prohibited guns content'.
I don't mind it at all. I can resist going on Facebook for several hours, but many others seem to not be able to. I don't get why people really care about this and claiming that it "violates" student rights. One, it's the school's network and we are lucky to have it. Two, we come to school to learn, not to go on The Escapist and watch Zero Punctuation. Pisses me off when people complain about it. (unless its a video the teacher wants to show us on youtube and they have to phone the office for the password and it takes forever)
