Question for all High School Students?

[JochemDude]

Seems like almost everyone here had them, I know we didn't we could access everything we would want.

 

[InnerRebellion]

My school blocked the most random list of websites. So, one day, my friends and I managed to obtain the network username and password (they NEVER changed it from "admin" and "password".). We went in, and removed all the blocks, and using our minimal computer knowledge, drafted a program that would end explore.exe after spamming the user with annoying messages. Some were giberrish, some were memes, and some were blank. We uploaded into the network, which put it on every computer in the school.

Did we ever get caught? Nope.

 

[Condor219]

Currently, our school blocks everything that could possibly be related to a forum or blog, blocks every video site imaginable, blocks anything that has games on it that are any more complex then Pong (except one gaming portal is linked to a teacher's webpage, so it's unblocked, which defeats the purpose of blocking gaming portals....), and anything that may or may not be a social networking site.

Ironically, the lightest block is on images of porn (A couple people have come across some rather interesting applications of Rule 34).

 

[General Ken8]

The school I visited pretty much blocked everything. Wikipedia pages about Hitler and WW2 were blocked. In a german school. I wish I was kidding. This is with 16 year olds sitting in front of the screen too.

Ironically, sites like @homo and nobrain werent blocked. Which resulted in more than one person being told to type things of that nature into there address bar and getting told off when they suddenly had a bunch of old peoples cocks bouncing around the screen with no way of closing the browser except for alt+f4 or task manager, combinations and features most people dont know.

Seriously, even the hub of porn wasnt blocked. I cant read up on the most successful tank crew in WW2 but I can watch EXTREME ROUGH ANAL RIPPING WITH ONE GIRL 15 BLACK GUYS AND 3 GLASSES OF KETCHUP (YOU DONT EVEN WANT TO KNOW WHERE THAT SHIT IS GOING) XXX XXX XXX EXTREME EDITION? Fuck school.

I hate to say it but I laughed extremely hard at the all caps part.

Our school blocks websites when someone gets on a website and the monitors see that it's not meant for education, and they also have some programs for it.
But I figured out how to get around all of the programs they use, not that I've ever really used it much but it's pathetically easy if you know how to do it

 

[AtheistAndProud]

Our school filter was unbelievably frustrating.
I once painstakingly created an online jeopardy game for a class assignment, only to watch in disbelief as the filter blocked it.
I got a zero. Yeah...

 

[Bobbity]

My school blocks Facebook, The Escapist, every proxy you could possibly name, and a bunch of other stuff. It's really annoying, because they're blocking so much now that it can actually interfere, quite significantly, with research. Good thing there's still the old 'cached' button.

 

[Hollock]

A lot of stuff is blocked for me , but not the escapist. But i never go on

 

[Sun Flash]

My old Highschool was terrible for that. Sure Youtube, Facebook etc. I can understand. But when you are a Modern Studies (read: Politics) student and the official Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem websites are blocked due to containing political material, as well as sites on Christianity etc. Blocked due to religious references, and anything Nazi related blocked for being Nazi related (FUN FACT; My history course was all about the Nazis and their rise to power) it makes doing research in class a *****, especially since proxies were blocked as well.

Oh and did I mention the council told my school beforehand to "get with the times" as my teacher put it and invest in 50 smartboards as opposed to black boards and let kids "take learning into their own hands"?

Edinburgh Council - trolling world champions 2009-2010

 

[Damien Granz]

How many of you attend a high school with internet connectivity with blocks and censors on websites such as (For example) Facebook, YouTube, or this site The Escapist? What are your opinions about it.

I'm in a high school where The Escapist is blocked. I'm using 3G from my phone to connect.

I'm gonna show my age here, but I think it's good they block that stuff.

It's one thing if you live at the high school and would be expected to surf on your off time (like a dorm room or whatever), but a place of work or whatever that you're not reasonably expected to spend free time at, blocking things that disrupts what they need to do (IE, teach you in this case), isn't a bad thing.

Used to be if you even had a cell phone on your person you could get it taken away.

Edit: Yes I can see the harm blocking does to doing research online, but if they give you a machine that plays video games as well as does math for you, which are you going to use first if nobody is looking?

 

[Nadiril]

Eh we had a reasonable ban, I don't remember anything too stupid being banned. However we were allowed to play dota and quake 3 during lunch periods and stuff.

 

[Womplord]

When I went to school, so many sites were blocked that many of the sites I used for legitimate research were blocked... but in my last year they removed all of the blocks. Distasteful content was considered a legitimate reason.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I do. We have the Internet, but can't get on sites like YouTube, Newgrounds, the Escapist, and many more.

 

[Extragorey]

Our school's filtering is pretty basic, so I can just get around it by using my laptop and turning off automatically acquired proxy settings.

But yeah, Facebook and The Escapist are blocked, but not Youtube.

 

[NathLines]

They've put a block up so that you can't connect to servers or something. So many people were playing WoW and the like.

I hate it 'cause it stops me from getting achievements from Kongregate

 

[matt_newgrove]

How many of you attend a high school with internet connectivity with blocks and censors on websites such as (For example) Facebook, YouTube, or this site The Escapist? What are your opinions about it.

I'm in a high school where The Escapist is blocked. I'm using 3G from my phone to connect.

My first year I used OPH crack on an unattended computer, got the adim password and user name, problem solved. I didn't tell anyone the password for 3 years (when passed it down to my younger brother) and didn't raise any suspicion. I even put WC3 and quake3 on a usb drive and played them during lunch break.

 

[The Heavy Metal Nerd]

Looks like I BARELY qualify as this, considering I'm a Senior and we have less than 10 days left, but...the filter at OUR school is cranked up to what one of my friends refers to as "Taliban Level" even BING is blocked on that. I USED to know how to get around it, but it seems they've grown smarter and started plugging the holes. Not that I mind too much. I'm too busy studying for finals (yeah, right), to get on the internet at school much.

 

[legion431]

Yeah, they block them. They also block most sites that you'd think would be perfectly fine for even an eight year old but they block them for high school students. Damn Catholic school.

 

[ExileNZ]

I discovered the escapist after I left sixth form, so I'm not sure if this particualr site was blocked but I imagine so. You could still find plenty of unfiltered webcomics, sites and flash games to kill time and really for the most part it was beneficial to keep you focused on the work. However, it also hindered my ability to conduct Historical research when they filtered articles on totalitarian figureheads, kind of annoying.

6th form? You a NZer?

 

[SirDeadly]

The blocks at my high school are ridiculous! Now that we have a new year 12 subject called "Research project" (biggest waste of time in the history of schooling!) it's even worse. It's almost impossible to do any research at school because you cannot get access to any useful websites. Once a site I went onto was blocked because of santa!

EDIT: They also have programs that allow the teachers to view every computer screen in the class and there's one computer used the the IT guy that lets him see every single one. You never know when you'll get blocked from the server...

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I discovered the escapist after I left sixth form, so I'm not sure if this particualr site was blocked but I imagine so. You could still find plenty of unfiltered webcomics, sites and flash games to kill time and really for the most part it was beneficial to keep you focused on the work. However, it also hindered my ability to conduct Historical research when they filtered articles on totalitarian figureheads, kind of annoying.

6th form? You a NZer?

No I'm English, we just also happen to use that term for people studying A-Levels.