I've always been skeptical of censorware since my freshman year of college when they had NetNanny installed on the 24-hour lab computers.
Needless to say, after Net Nanny shut the computer down when a student wrote the word "gender" in a paper she was writing, locked down the computer when I misspelled "six" as "sex" even though I corrected it... they took it off the computers in a month because students were ticked off.
Around here, you can always tell if they're messing with the Internet content filters. One day, java.sun.com was blocked - I was on the phone with the ESEF help desk for half an hour before they got me transferred to the guys in charge of the filters here and they got an EARFUL. (I need to refer to the APIs on java.sun.com, it's directly related to my job.) The filters were fixed fairly quickly - turned out half my division was calling and yelling.
So, yeah, I think there'd be an audience for an anti-censorware page. (Just to see how many of these products block it...)
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Date: 2005-09-22 01:00 pm (UTC)Needless to say, after Net Nanny shut the computer down when a student wrote the word "gender" in a paper she was writing, locked down the computer when I misspelled "six" as "sex" even though I corrected it... they took it off the computers in a month because students were ticked off.
Around here, you can always tell if they're messing with the Internet content filters. One day, java.sun.com was blocked - I was on the phone with the ESEF help desk for half an hour before they got me transferred to the guys in charge of the filters here and they got an EARFUL. (I need to refer to the APIs on java.sun.com, it's directly related to my job.) The filters were fixed fairly quickly - turned out half my division was calling and yelling.
So, yeah, I think there'd be an audience for an anti-censorware page. (Just to see how many of these products block it...)