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

[Michael Bimmler]

On 4/14/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Well... My school blocked 'www.essex.ac.uk', as the URL contains the
word "sex". Actually, such behaviour will probably never change. You
have to live with it or become very persuasive in dealing with network
administrators...
Michael

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