Question for all High School Students?
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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)
I use to go to a school like that, got banned from the computers for a semester after using a proxy to bypass it and playing counter strike in class. Ahh good times.....
I went to a catholic school and they had blocks. You can just use Tor or proxies to get around it though.
So many websites are blocked at my school. We regularly have to find new game sites to mess around on and often have to ask the IT technicians to unblock fairly legitimate websites. I don't blame them, it's their job and many sites can pose a risk to the school that would end with their jobs being so much more difficult. I resent the kids that complain about game sites being blocked.
As a little addition, many websites won't load up on our own laptops on the school network. Eventually it got round that https:// would let you use most of them.
As a little addition, many websites won't load up on our own laptops on the school network. Eventually it got round that https:// would let you use most of them.
High schools have public computer rooms? Daaaang, that's pretty nice.
My school was dirt fucking poor, there was a time we didn't even have enough desks for everyone.
If you're bitching about internet being blocked from your public computer you should know we didn't even have public computers to use, you could only use them in the computer labs for classes. Whopping 300mhz CPUs. This was all awhile ago ... but trust me, these things were old even back then.
If you want to use a site just setup an encrypted VPN on your home computer and tunnel through it; problem solved.
My school was dirt fucking poor, there was a time we didn't even have enough desks for everyone.
If you're bitching about internet being blocked from your public computer you should know we didn't even have public computers to use, you could only use them in the computer labs for classes. Whopping 300mhz CPUs. This was all awhile ago ... but trust me, these things were old even back then.
If you want to use a site just setup an encrypted VPN on your home computer and tunnel through it; problem solved.
My school didn't block anything but, I wish they did or atleast installed anti-virus software(our USBs always came home with 'gifts' whenever we used them in our lab). There were only seven people in my A'levels Computing class and a lot of the time, the teacher left the class about half way through to let them surf. But we did get some proper use for the unblocked facebook,yahoo and gaming sites as we transferred our project files on both facebook(one guy did, I don't know how) and yahoo in case we forgot our USBs and it was very effective backup and we used Pakgamers.com to coordinate extra classes(mostly me because everyone else used facebook) because I had voluntarily left facebook after the "Draw Muhammad Day" fiasco and Mark Zuckerburg's arrogant refusal to apologize for it even after the actual creator of the page did.
Yep, all of the above. Any game site they can find they block.GrizzlerBorno said:Is that like a mile stone for a site? To be blocked from institutions housing it's primary demographic? I feel like it should be.
To the OP, may I ask what other site's are blocked from your school network? Do they block Penny Arcade? Or maybe Machinima.com? What about Gamespot, RoosterTeeth or IGN?
OT: I had a shitty high school with a shitty lab. It introduced me to Doom LAN multiplayer in 2006 though, so I can't be too mad at it
Back when I went to high school they used internet blocks.
It was actually quite humorous, at first the site that was blocked that was the most inconvenient was Youtube but at least at first the school only blocked the North American version of Youtube, so everyone just went to the UK version, until eventually they figured it out and blocked all versions of Youtube.
Most students just went around the block using proxies though, although eventualy they just blocked the proxy sites too, that didn't stop students from bringing in their own proxies though.
They blocked a lot of sites actually. I can't remember if the Escapist was blocked though, I seem to remember going there at school at least once.
I do remember though at least one of the sites they blocked: ratemyteacher.com, seeing that one be blocked made me feel quite amused. Afraid of letting the kids express their opinions are we?
It was actually quite humorous, at first the site that was blocked that was the most inconvenient was Youtube but at least at first the school only blocked the North American version of Youtube, so everyone just went to the UK version, until eventually they figured it out and blocked all versions of Youtube.
Most students just went around the block using proxies though, although eventualy they just blocked the proxy sites too, that didn't stop students from bringing in their own proxies though.
They blocked a lot of sites actually. I can't remember if the Escapist was blocked though, I seem to remember going there at school at least once.
I do remember though at least one of the sites they blocked: ratemyteacher.com, seeing that one be blocked made me feel quite amused. Afraid of letting the kids express their opinions are we?
My school has internet, though it's spotty at best, and they block sites like Facebook, which I think is reasonable since nobody's is going to be on facebook anyway since they're all at school. Though they don't block the Escapist, which makes my free blocks more entertaining.
I think it's bad. Schools are just being lazy not making sure people aren't viewing stuff, and it's not even a majority of people visiting "bad" sites, just a handful of troublemakers. and as a result they cut off valuable sites that the behaved students could use to learn.
Everything used to be blocked at my school, but then I got everyone to download chrome/firefox, just different web browsers. Now I doubt that I was the first to do so, I just managed to get more kids to do so. So now everything is unblocked.
Our school blocks pretty much everything. Facebook, Youtube, DeviantArt and, sadly, The Escapist, among countless other pages. Yet it's always easy to get onto flash games...
The blocker shows categories as to why the page is blocked when it happens.Biodeamon said:
This example: Porn, Pornography, [third unrelated term that was completely unrelated to the other two that I forget].
Pretty safe to say it's because someone said porn once or twice on the first page.
my secondary school (when i was at it) had facebook blocked I think, I only started using it as a method of contacting others afterwards.
Funnily enough they had youtube blocked, but only via direct link, as in, it would block it if you typed youtube.com/co.uk into the web address, but would be accessable if you did a google search for youtube.
Funnily enough they had youtube blocked, but only via direct link, as in, it would block it if you typed youtube.com/co.uk into the web address, but would be accessable if you did a google search for youtube.