School internet filters

**Coyote** · 2nd November 2007, 06:44

Screenshot from a school computer yesterday. It's ironic that preventing access to humour made me laugh.

I heard from a mate that another category he came across was 'Educational Material'. School's preventing learning? Maybe they're afraid we'd learn the truth about something....

What proxy's do you use at school or work? I'm subscribed to circumventor but I suspect the main IT dude at school is also so blocks them as soon as he sees them, so I don't get to use them that long. Also google translator has been blocked.

By the way, kiwibiker is blocked under 'pornographic'.

**Usarka** · 2nd November 2007, 06:56

Hahaha, blocking humour. Grow up grumpy kids!

Our filter at work tells you why a site is blocked then says:

This page was blocked because it contains the following words or terms: Arse, Fuck, Cock, Shit, Donkey Sex,

So it tells us the words we aren't allowed to see

**hXc** · 2nd November 2007, 07:01

Ours just doesn't let us go on that page - "page restricted" or some shit.
KB ain't blocked, neither is SB. We've found 'mirror' sites too. So youtube, bebo, myspace etc are all accessible from school computers.

**James Deuce** · 2nd November 2007, 07:05

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

It's not just schools. KB is blocked as pornographic by all of the Government departments that I have anything to do with. Swearing is also an issue.

Where you have any organisation with an Internet usage policy that excludes common sense or discretion on the part of the user base you'll have most useful sites blocked.

Having said that, there are people who stock up on child porn at work. The IT guy at school is not enjoying restricting Internet access, I guarantee it.

**hXc** · 2nd November 2007, 07:09

Originally Posted by Jim2

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.

**James Deuce** · 2nd November 2007, 07:19

Heeeheeeeheee.

Latin translator working for you then?

**Str8 Jacket** · 2nd November 2007, 09:15

Man we didnt even have access to the Internet when I was at school!

**koba** · 2nd November 2007, 09:28

Originally Posted by Jim2

Having said that, there are people who stock up on child porn at work. The IT guy at school is not enjoying restricting Internet access, I guarantee it.

The IT guy at my old (all boys) college got in trouble for naughty things like that. one of the most disturbing things in the court pages in the local paper was "Making animal porn" was among the many varied naughty things he got charged with.

Freaky shit.

**Skyryder** · 2nd November 2007, 09:34

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Man we didnt even have access to the Internet when I was at school!

And what access there was to inter.....e was punishable by being expelled if caught............or heaven forbid the other.

Skyryder

**Mikkel** · 2nd November 2007, 10:08

Oh, you gotta love censorship. Thank you thought police, we'd be lost without you.

And dodgy IT guys always makes me think of BOfH, it's written by a Kiwi and bloody hilarious. And there's a lot more as well.

**xwhatsit** · 2nd November 2007, 10:17

Is BOFH written by a Kiwi?! LMAO! Had no idea.

We had great fun at school playing with proxies and SSH tunnels and lots of fun stuff to try and get around the blocking software and firewalls. Usually successful, nobody can stop a pack of determined geeks.

**gijoe1313** · 2nd November 2007, 10:39

We have the usual filtering here at my school, however since I am on good terms with the IT guy, I just give him the addies I want unblocked to be assigned to my log-on.

All sweet! KB and Dilbert are fine with me ... I just avoid checking up on the more questionable threads (which means most of them!

)

My class are now all in different stages of denial due to lack of work all the spectre of exams ...

I should be riding my bike

**The Pastor** · 2nd November 2007, 10:45

i know at my school the turned the net 0n and off for classes, so out of class time u were pwnt.

but for some reason usin windows explorer (instead of ie) got around all blockages.

**James Deuce** · 2nd November 2007, 10:45

Originally Posted by Mikkel

Oh, you gotta love censorship. Thank you thought police, we'd be lost without you.

It's not thought police it's the half dozen families of the religious right or extreme hippy left who insist on the rest of us respecting their principles at the expense of our own (or lack thereof).