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Author Topic: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012  (Read 58299 times)

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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #435 on: July 13, 2012, 04:23:42 pm »
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I just had a thought: policing our school's internet usage would be useless. we can't even look at the Wikipedia page for Hitler (but we have a copy of mein kampf in the library), and it's slow as shit anyways.
HISTORY?! WE NEED NONE OF IT!
But, seriously. That is stupid.
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« Reply #436 on: July 13, 2012, 04:28:19 pm »
As I have mentioned before, the blocking software used by schools and the like function on keyword scripts and can block things without any human input. Notifying the network administrator will likely get stupid blocks removed.
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« Reply #437 on: July 13, 2012, 04:35:33 pm »
Notifying the network admin is pointless unless you're faculty, since if you do everything the students ask theres no point in filtering anything but pornography. At least as far as I know about the kinda people at my high school.
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« Reply #438 on: July 13, 2012, 04:36:00 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 13, 2012, 04:28:19 pm
As I have mentioned before, the blocking software used by schools and the like function on keyword scripts and can block things without any human input. Notifying the network administrator will likely get stupid blocks removed.
You think having Hitler blocked is stupid?
That's nothing.
The Wikipedia page for Saint George, the patron saint of ENGLAND THE COUNTRY WHERE I LIVE was blocked on our school's network. Not only that, but it was specifically blocked by the supplier of the management software. Then again, so is the TvTropes page for Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, for pornography apparently. I don't even know why somebody would use their software, they can't even write the error pages right. When it says why you're blocked, it should say something like "this has been blocked because it is of type: [Reason goes in here, examples include:Pornography/illegal content/Jokes (seriously, that is a reason)]", but instead it says "Type of pornography blocked". Seriously. They can't even put words in the right order.

In total then, policing the internet is a stupid idea.
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« Reply #439 on: July 13, 2012, 04:47:40 pm »
Quote from: Aklyon on July 13, 2012, 04:35:33 pm
Notifying the network admin is pointless unless you're faculty, since if you do everything the students ask theres no point in filtering anything but pornography. At least as far as I know about the kinda people at my high school.
I imagine anyone would see the absurdity of blocking Hitler's wikipedia page and unblock it if notified. I imagine it is only blocked in the first place because the program is trying to block Neo-Nazi sites but being stupid about it and excising anything with Hitler's name on it.
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« Reply #440 on: July 13, 2012, 04:51:11 pm »
You can get some entertainment out of the filter, though, in certain sites. Everytime someone (jokingly or not) tried to get to 4chan it threw a different reason for the block.
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« Reply #441 on: July 13, 2012, 05:34:05 pm »
I know that my high school actually didn't block Bay 12. Now I only checked for a couple of seconds because, let's be real here, y'all are disturbing as hell, but it wasn't blocked.
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« Reply #442 on: July 13, 2012, 05:55:01 pm »
Ours has everything blocked by default, and to get access you have to send a request blah blah everything fun gets rejected. If they reject it, it cannot be unblocked without the system admin people. If THEY reject it, you have to go to the company who made the software.

It's kind of silly how everything is autoblocked really. It makes doing anything really tedious.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #443 on: July 13, 2012, 05:56:46 pm »
But kids might be looking at BAD PICTURES!


Yeah it's ridiculous.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #444 on: July 13, 2012, 06:01:03 pm »
Blocking everything by default is just silly. Its more work to build a whitelist of every needed site than make a targeted blacklist, as far as I'd look at it.
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« Reply #445 on: July 13, 2012, 06:09:15 pm »
My uni blocks Bay12 but not Reddit or 4chan.. Weird.
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« Reply #446 on: July 13, 2012, 06:10:26 pm »
Quote from: Reudh on July 13, 2012, 06:09:15 pm
My uni blocks Bay12 but not Reddit or 4chan.. Weird.
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It's known as the Oppai-Kaiju effect. The islands of Japan generate a sort anti-gravity field, which allows breasts to behave as if in microgravity. It's also what allows Godzilla and friends to become 50 stories tall, and lets ninjas run up the side of a skyscraper.

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« Reply #447 on: July 13, 2012, 06:16:36 pm »
More to the point, have they seen what 4chan does.
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« Reply #448 on: July 13, 2012, 06:42:38 pm »
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« Reply #449 on: July 13, 2012, 07:31:41 pm »
One day in class I was trying to find a good website that wasn't banned, and then I tried TvTropes.

I failed that class.
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