[WikiEN-l] "Our school board decided to block Wikipedia..."

[Oldak Quill]

On 14/04/07, Will <sceptre at tintower.co.uk> wrote:
> My school blocked Wikipedia in February.
>
> The Sheila Broflofski-like head of IT (i.e. more focused on profanity than
> pornography or violence, demonstrated in me nearly getting expelled for use
> of the word fuck in a forum, while people who looked at porn and uploaded
> graphical violence to youtube got nothing) then decided to blame all the
> vandalism and abuse of it on me (even though the school had been blocked for
> eight months, and I was the only prolific editor), causing me to get a load
> of harassment from other students.

My school used a service which blocked access to websites containing
particular words. One such word was "gay" which meant that students
couldn't access gay-advocacy sites. Schools tend to overvalue
censorship and control.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)