Does your school block websites?

[funkywizard]

So what does your school block?

[Bunnie]

i dont go to school, but at uni if you look at anything 'naughty' then you get an email from them telling you off, as my housemate found out when we were doing our same sex marriage coursework and she clicked on the wrong kind of link if you know what i mean!

[Ilora-Danon]

At my old school they blocked profile sites like faceparty and facewhore after about 6 months of us constantly logging onto profile sites.
They also blocked message boards at some point during the last year I was there. Also any sites with remotely sexual words of words remotely emotive. lol. Hotmail was blocked, until they realised the teachers used it to email their students homework and visa versa.

Ilora x

[mystifymysoul]

Pretty much anything remotely fun is blocked, especially if it has "game" anywhere in the address. Thesite isn't blocked though, woo.

[ShyBoy]

If you're playing on games at my school you can be excluded. And its likely you will get caught, as they've recently paid £2k for some software that logs everything. If you type 'f u c k' consequtively it will take a screenshot of what you're doing and send it to the admin. If the word 'game' appears on a webpage, same happens. So basically, my school has gone control freak crazy. They excluded a student for a day already cos he was playing on net games. Really, it should be the teacher who should be excluded, as its their class, and I think most people know that in some classes nobody really goes on games / random stuff and in others everyone does.

Oh and also they've just blocked all the email websites too, so you can only use the schools mailserver, which doesnt actually work because EMBC just burnt down. So we're all back to floppy disk land (the usb ports are locked out incase you bring a virus on a usb stick) -> but bear in mind not all the computers in the school actually have floppy drives, only the old ones.

[Replicant]

my old school did, mainly because the network superviser was a power crazy nazi. also used to be the caretaker pathetic fool used to come tell people off for "wasting his bandwidth" even after school hours. It's not like he was doing anything constructive with it...

[Teh_Gerbil]

i voted fun/

but college filters anything that may in any way contain information.

[ShyBoy]

Originally Posted by Teh_Gerbil

i voted fun/

but college filters anything that may in any way contain information.

The amount of websites that are categorised as 'criminal skills website' at our school is funny for example: http://www.shakespeare.com/

[Randomgirl]

My old school used to try to block hotmail but we used to over-ride it withing a few minutes of their latest method.

There was a standard censorship thing on the school computer system but it used to block useful sites like Tutor2U economics website but allow dodgy rude things through!

Originally Posted by Ilora-Danon

Hotmail was blocked, until they realised the teachers used it to email their students homework and visa versa.

Ilora x

Hotmail is blocked at my school as well, but one of the IT teachers exaplined to us that it's something to do with viruses and stuff.

I think they've blocked www.therockstargame.com

[ShyBoy]

If you did a google image search it wouldnt be uncommon for porn to come up. Yet everything else is still blocked.

[Teh_Gerbil]

Originally Posted by TheShyBoyInTheCorner

If you did a google image search it wouldnt be uncommon for porn to come up. Yet everything else is still blocked.

Yup. It is annoying, visit forums is IMPOSSIBLE at college.

They filtered EVERYTHING. Even New Labour's Website, the Conservatives. Under the category "political". GHEY

And b3ta.. can't see why.

Originally Posted by Teh_Gerbil

Yup. It is annoying, visit forums is IMPOSSIBLE at college.

They filtered EVERYTHING. Even New Labour's Website, the Conservatives. Under the category "political". GHEY

And b3ta.. can't see why.

That's just shit. Can't remember who mentioned it, but I think there was someone who told me that their school blocks the LawTeacher website...

[softworld]

my school blocks tonnes of stuff using the C2K filtering system, message boards, clubs, non safe image searches, adult material, tonnes of crap.

even thesite.org!! D=

[JsT]

My school IT dude was a nazi too, everything fun was blocked, hotmail, google image search, games everything. Always managed to hax0r round it though. Thesite.org was blocked too, but thesite.org.uk wasnt. Morons. Our uni let you search everything