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Rengori
10-09-2006, 10:36 PM
My school has blocked Wikipedia for "General Pornography." Who the hell goes to Wikipedia for porn?

Anyway, what other sites has your school or workplace banned that surprised you?
Decessus
10-09-2006, 10:39 PM
They blocked EoFF for being cult related. :(
Old Manus
10-09-2006, 10:42 PM
Some anti-drugs page on the BBC website got blocked once.
Venom
10-09-2006, 10:42 PM
My School has blocked every good site. Except Wikipedia which is strange.
RiseToFall
10-09-2006, 10:46 PM
Wikipedia is my #1 place for porn.
escobert
10-09-2006, 10:48 PM
schools always block anything good :p
Jowy
10-09-2006, 10:49 PM
The only thing blocked at work is m-space.
Sephex
10-09-2006, 10:50 PM
When I was in school the internet wasn't a big issue yet, so I never had to deal with sites being blocked.
Iceglow
10-09-2006, 10:51 PM
lol the funny thing for me was in high school whilst everyone else was having trouble getting to their fav sites I could get to all mine
Rocket Edge
10-09-2006, 10:53 PM
Mine has everything blocked..
McLovin'
10-09-2006, 10:56 PM
Nothing is blocked.

We play games almost every break some days.
BustaMo
10-10-2006, 12:38 AM
College allows everything where I'm at. Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised if they encouraged porn viewing with the people we got that run our college...
Vincent, Thunder God
10-10-2006, 12:52 AM
One of my classmates at my old school was blocked from acessing information on a Canadian politician (I think it was Steven Harper, during the election, before became the Prime Minister).
SammieBabe
10-10-2006, 01:07 AM
Apparently work has banned everything good. Jerks...
Shiny
10-10-2006, 01:09 AM
My school should restrict some of links on google. It has loads of porn on there. The problem with google is that you type in something like "photosynthesis" and you get "naked chicks hot waiting". -_- Also, They haven't blocked youtube, but they should. My school has blocked Myspace though; which I'm not too concerned about.
Vincent, Thunder God
10-10-2006, 02:04 AM
My school should restrict some of links on google. It has loads of porn on there. The problem with google is that you type in something like "photosynthesis" and you get "naked chicks hot waiting". -_-

Yeah...

I remember when I was in grade 7 and I was searching "strange behaviours of the panda bear" for a project. I decided to use the "I'm feeling lucky" option which basically links you directly to the first choice (I don't think that option exists anymore). I got a lesbian chat site. Naturally my classmates thought it was great.

This was in the days before school firewalls. :D
Ryth
10-10-2006, 02:21 AM
My school blocks everything, nothing surprises me.
Rusty
10-10-2006, 02:22 AM
Wikipedia does have some "risky images". I typed in sun-tanning and got an eyeful. Also researching sexual diseases on wiki is not fun.
Xaven
10-10-2006, 02:35 AM
My school district hasn't blocked forums.eyesonff or wikipedia, and that's all I could ever ask for.

(However, a new thing this year is that I think the computers are rejecting the cookies that let you log in, so I'm stuck as a guest. D: )
Skarr
10-10-2006, 02:42 AM
When I was in school, nothing was blocked on our computers and college allows us to view anything we need. >;D
Roto13
10-10-2006, 02:45 AM
The first search I ever ran had "The Hottest Sex Site On The Net" as it's first result. I was searching for tigers or something.
Leeza
10-10-2006, 02:55 AM
My work has nothing banned. Sometimes I wish they would ban stuff, but we're just expected to not use the computers for anything other than work related purposes. Actually, we're more than expected to as we had to sign a paper saying that we wouldn't be. Or, you could possibly get fired.
yunacy
10-10-2006, 03:43 AM
at my school they banned myspace wiki and youtube
rubah
10-10-2006, 04:08 AM
anything with the word blog journal forum game and similar are blocked. Keyword filters are terrible.
Rainecloud
10-10-2006, 07:50 AM
My School ended up banning the entire Internet.

"If you can't sort it, get rid of it", they said. =/
vorpal blade
10-10-2006, 09:11 AM
I seem to recall a story:
A second grade teacher is in the computer lab with her class and she is teaching them how to use the internet or guiding the class to a certain site (the latter, i think). She accidentally leads the whole second grade class to a porn site.
Bunny
10-10-2006, 12:21 PM
You kids today are lucky. Back when I went to school, we didn't even have the internet! We had to read books to get our information. And we had to walk seven miles uphill both ways in the snow barefoot!

Grumble grumble.

(My school didn't block anything. I used to visit Rotten everyday!)
Loony BoB
10-10-2006, 12:23 PM
I know my work has bash.org and oldfriends.co.nz banned. Sucks. :(
Mirage
10-10-2006, 01:21 PM
I haven't come across any site that's blocked at my uni.
Rainecloud
10-10-2006, 01:33 PM
You kids today are lucky. Back when I went to school, we didn't even have the internet! We had to read books to get our information. And we had to walk seven miles uphill both ways in the snow barefoot!

Grumble grumble.

(My school didn't block anything. I used to visit Rotten everyday!)

Lucky? My school provided us with BBC Micro (http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/AcornB.JPG) computers to help us pass our Information Technology courses! The school budget didn't allow them to buy decent computers 'till the year 2000. It was an absolute joke...
Jimsour
10-10-2006, 01:38 PM
My old college blocked google images under "Block Pornography".. very annoying.
Levian
10-10-2006, 02:47 PM
Nothing blocked at school or work, but the work threatens to cut down on salary if we forget the clear the history.
bipper
10-10-2006, 02:48 PM
Kids just do not see 'naked art' as 'art'. I have no filters
xX.Silver.Wings.Xx
10-10-2006, 04:08 PM
they blocked www.japanese-online.com (dunno why... it's a pretty stupid thing to block) but I get on it using www.surfsneaker.com.. I love it.
10-Breaker
10-11-2006, 03:19 PM
Well there are no banned sites in our school, but if you use sites where is porn or something like heavy violence, you wont be allowed to use computer for year or 2.:eep:
YTDN
10-11-2006, 03:54 PM
Our school is pretty lenient on the blocking, but if you go onto a banned site, a big red circle with a black ! and 'You are trying to access a restricted site' on it appears, and your computer makes a siren noise, which attracts oohs from the rest of the class.
Fire_Emblem776
10-12-2006, 04:09 AM
Google was blocked for a while.
Shaun
10-12-2006, 12:26 PM
Hehe. This makes me think back to secondary school. I remember I found a way to get into the system's files. I found a file which contained all of the blocked sites and kept altering it. I told someone else how to do it but he got caught and got bollocked for it.
Polaris
10-12-2006, 12:30 PM
My school used to block webmessenger but it had the MSN installed! :D
Reine
10-13-2006, 03:14 AM
At my school, at one time, it ran on keyword filters. Games was an evil keyword, it blocked almost everything. GameFAQS was the site I went to most then, and I could only access it at lunch, when the filters were lifted temporarily.

Also, EoFF was blocked, thanks to me :D

Luckily, the keyword system was removed and replaced by a better system later on.
BardTard
10-13-2006, 03:21 AM
Once I googled an image of girl scout cookies and that was blocked. I was like WHOA, WTF. (for an assignment in food services, btw)
Araciel
10-13-2006, 03:24 AM
wikipedia has porn on it?