Heinrich Himmler would be proud.....

Quote:A Woodbury High Schooler claims he uncovered political bias in the implementation of a firewall blocking some political Web sites at his school.

18-year-old Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School, said he made the discovery when he was doing research for a classroom debate on gun control in May. Lampart said he first noticed that he could not get on the web site for the National Rifle Association.

“So, I went over to the other side. And I went over on sites such as Moms Demand Action or Newtown Action Alliance and I could get on these Web sites but not the others,” Lampart said.

Lampart investigated further, by broadening his search terms to Connecticut’s political parties.

“I immediately found out that the State Democrat web site was unblocked but the State GOP web site was blocked.”

Lampart even looked at Web sites focusing on abortion issues and religion. He found that “right-to-life” groups were blocked by the public school firewall but that Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice America were not. He also tried to get on web sites such as Christianity.com and the Vatican’s web site but both were blocked. Islam-guide.com he found, was not.

“They’re trying to, in my opinion, shelter us from what’s actually going on around the country and around the world by blocking these web sites. It should be the other way around. The web sites should be unblocked so that students can get different viewpoints from different sides of each argument,” Lampart said.

http://foxct.com/2014/06/17/high-school-...ive-sites/

Time for a Jesse Waters visit.

In Ohio it's exactly the opposite. I can get Drudge, Limbaugh, Red State, and Huffington Post and Daily Kos are blocked.

those blocks are frequently (and I emphasize frequently, not "always") a result of a nationally managed subscription that comes with the firewalling app.

you can block/unblock/customize, but those are usually the result of user and management complaints.

sorry guys but the whole concept of high school internet censorship is stupid. you can't really find where to draw the line on websites that should and should not be blocked, and the kids are always gonna figure out a way to get around them.

(06-18-2014 09:33 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  In Ohio it's exactly the opposite. I can get Drudge, Limbaugh, Red State, and Huffington Post and Daily Kos are blocked.

Is the State Democratic site blocked?

(06-18-2014 09:33 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  In Ohio it's exactly the opposite. I can get Drudge, Limbaugh, Red State, and Huffington Post and Daily Kos are blocked.

Really. I'm going to have to check this to make sure you're not blowing smoke.

It was called Bess. It was a dog that would come up. It's regional. We have a three county service center.

I still don't get why HuffPost or DailyKOS would be blocked. Heck, the ACLU goes berserk when someone wants to block adult porn and kiddy porn.

Well Himmler actually wouldn't be proud, he was a bit of a rightist you know.

The keyword said profanity and you do get that on that site. Here's another one. The Ozone which is a Ohio State football forum would be blocked but Victors or UM GO Blue you could get. I always said a Republican Skunk Bear was in charge of the filter.

Isn't this controlled by the specific software used and what key words it tracks as off-limits, having nothing at all to do with politics, conservatives, or liberals?

Read: Another idiotic non-story posted by ERC.

My work used to block out the site where I got my daily sudoku puzzle from because one of their puzzles was called "Killer Sudoku."

(06-19-2014 02:15 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  I still don't get why HuffPost or DailyKOS would be blocked. Heck, the ACLU goes berserk when someone wants to block adult porn and kiddy porn.

Huffpo frequently posts stories about "side-boob" and many things labeled as NSFW.