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I was thinking that too... colleges are probably open. 

Anybody here still in HS?

I know that there is this one site that lets you browse google without technically leaving the site, bypassing all blocks.

at my high school we had a total blocking system that blocked almost every site out there, including google.  After about a week our entire server system went down or something, so we didn't have internet for like a semester, and when it came back, the block was gone.

here at UCB, there are no blocks at all that I've run into.

currently the internet is only available through proxies.

My school isn't too bad, but no one really uses those computers for much. I'll ask a tech person what kind of filters we have.

theres a facebook group at my school called "i watch porn in the library"

yeah colleges block nothing.

High Schools should block things. Tax dollars and all.

Colleges, on the other hand, when I was there, I was paying too damn much for an internet connection for anything to be blocked.

While at an orientation at Northland, I hid off and over-listened to the Parent's Q&A while the other Freshmen were doing some orientation game. One pair of parents asked the IT head if the school blocked porn sites. And if they didn't, if they could for their kid. How mortifying.

But those tax dollars aren't intended to babysit children.  Mostly because they can and do tell parents to stfu.

My college only had blocks on the dorm networks, eventually.  At first you could do whatever, then slowly they shut up the ports for Kazaa and BitTorrent.  And there have always been bandwidth limitations for individuals, but they were pretty high.  I forget the circumstances but for some reason all internet access for students was turned off and when it returned things like AIM were blocked.  Riots ensued and it was back on in a day.  I think they flipped the network into "safe mode" because the Iraq war was starting, for whatever sense that made.

Zaimejs wrote:

That doesn't make much sense... colleges also use tax dollars (at least public ones) and they don't block anything.

Yeah, I didn't initially go to a public school. So there.

Mt school blocks mostly porn, but is reasonable with other sites like wikipedia, somethingawful, and penny-arcade. We also have a wireless system that does not block anything, because it's your computer. My high school is awesome.

Tria wrote:

Colleges, at least the 3 I've been to, don't block anything.

Some of them block bittorrent and other P2P apps.
It is amazing at public universities how much taxpayer money goes to students using the pipe for serving their music collections via P2P. Utterly amazing and disgusting.

Some universities have blocked it - interestingly enough, it seems to be more commonly blocked at private universities where the tax payer isn't ultimately footing the bill ...

mo' ron wrote:

resedit wrote:

Tria wrote:

Colleges, at least the 3 I've been to, don't block anything.

Some of them block bittorrent and other P2P apps.
It is amazing at public universities how much taxpayer money goes to students using the pipe for serving their music collections via P2P. Utterly amazing and disgusting.

Some universities have blocked it - interestingly enough, it seems to be more commonly blocked at private universities where the tax payer isn't ultimately footing the bill ...

At my college, internet access is an extra fee. It's subsidized by public money, but the students are practically paying for their internet connection, so they should be able to use it however they want.

If you pay for it - sure.
It is when the tax payer is paying that I have some issue.

Dad was (now retired) sysadmin at Berkeley - during the Napster days, something like 70 to 80 percent of the outgoing bandwidth from Cal was Napster. Incoming bandwidth wasn't quite as bad - students got a lot of their songs from other students within the berkely network - but Californias were paying a large chunk of change for Bekely to acts as a huge Napster host for the rest of the world. I have a slight problem with that - that IT money could have been spent in better ways than giving often poorly encoded mp3's away.