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It’s really not at all hard to explain. My county uses the same sort of blocking software. Among the general types of sites blocked are those of hate groups and groups that advocate violence.
Yeah, maybe it’s an insidious campaign to turn children into libruls… Or maybe the school set up their web filtering software incorrectly.
Hanlon’s Razor makes me think it’s probably the latter. Those programs are notoriously bad about false positives, and the average school’s IT person is probably less adept with computers than the students.
Of course, I’m against schools censoring the web in general, but that’s not really a ‘liberal’ idea, is it?
Perhaps the real story here is “conservative high school student doesn’t know how to use proxy.”
WOW. You really need to employ some critical thinking every now and then.
This came in the ‘computer crash’ thread in the Elections forum. I posted this:
You have linked to a ‘news’ story that 100% journalism-free.
You really need to ask yourself ‘If the story was that the kid complained that school was blocking liberal sites, would I be so quick to take it as truth?? Or would I expect the ‘reporter’ to actually do his job?’
As it stands right now, the story is not ‘the school blocks sites’, the story is ‘a kid SAYS the school blocks sites’. And given the shoddiness of the ‘reporting’, I can’t even be sure of THAT.
But, what you are describing is no “moral hazard.”
The school district of which Nonnewaug High School is a part has posted letter (PDF) addressing the web filter thing.
I’m a computer security guy by profession. Web filtering products categorize sites by a mixture of automated scanning and human review. Since there are a gazillion sites, new ones added all the time, content changing all the time, domains being recycled, etc., it’s impossible to categorize the entire internet consistently. When I read the story, I thought, “I bet the sites he could get to were just uncategorized.” According to the letter posted by the district, that appears to have been the case. This kind of thing happens with every web filtering system.
Do you take lessons at being an annoying little maggot or is it something you come by naturally? Or possibly both?
Why does the SLIotD provide so much fodder for the SRIotD?
Really, this is just asinine and sub-par opinion-writing.
The web filters are subcontracted out to Dell SonicWall. Is Dell actively involved in building “liberal indoctrination centers”?
Was there anything out of the ordinary about the procurement process?
Does the service have mechanisms for individual clients to add to their database? If so, does it log who and when custom filters are added?
At what point in setting up the system did the administrators determine the cause of the Benghazi attack?
You’ve got 2 problems here…
You assume humpy’s influenced by logic and facts.
You assume that even if he could be influenced, humpy has an even passing interest in the truth.
Humpy is concerned with one thing only and that’s parroting the idiotic narration that’s constantly being replayed in his addled head.
If you have time for stuff like this, do you think you might spare a moment to acknowledge that you apparently don’t fully understand how web-blocking software works, and that, at the very very best, you are trying to pump a single news story of dubious accuracy into some kind of bizarre conspiracy theory?
You say as if it was a bad thing. We need more Red State populist Democrats even if like Governor Schweitzer they occasionally say regrettable things. He’s the closest we have to a Truman in our day and age.
Rightwingers get outraged by the silliest things… :smack:
This is an example of the mental defect that makes Clothy unable to judge issues sensibly.
A combination of gullibility and surety that can divert his way of thinking in an instant, and nail the rudder in place, making it immune to change once set.
And this is an example of the mental defect that you and other libs share. You think shit like that is perfectly acceptable.
Shit like acknowledging facts? I can see where that would be anathema to you. It’s so much easier to maintain an anti-factual worldview like (modern) conservatism if you just ignore facts and reality.
This reminds me of being a teacher, asking my students how they were getting around the website blocking software to play online games and stuff, because I needed to get to some educational videos on youtube that were being blocked, and teachers were not given access to get outside the web blocking.
I don’t think it’s acceptable, if it’s true. I’d like to know that before making a judgement.
You assume it’s true, because you have a delusional world view that’s based on Glen Beck’s paranoid rantings.
It’s probably true, but probably not intentional. My own company used Websense for awhile and now McCafee, and some political sites are blocked as “hate sites”(both left and right, and they just aren’t hate sites). A wrestling site is blocked for violent content even though it’s entirely text and every other wrestling site I know is accessible.
Just let the administrator know and they’ll whitelist the site. It’s understood that these applications block more than they need to. So you just go back and whitelist sites that shouldn’t be blocked.