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How everyone else's schools have such lenient internet.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-09-16 16:47:11 in General
[tɕagɛn]

Can someone please explain to me why literally every other person I meet on the internet has such lenient internet filters?

I'm mystified as to how others can play games, browse whatever they want, and other shit, and my school is worse than The Party. It's really starting to piss me off, because, in general, the schools here in Texas FUCKING SUCK compared to everyone else's schools. What the fuck.

Comments

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Aren't you in high school?

    Things get way more lax when you're in college.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    See, the thing about college is that a lot of people live here. They can't restrict sites just on the basis that you shouldn't watch them during the school day. The only thing my school actually blocks is torrenting.
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    So that's how it is, My college blocks youtube, but there aren't dorms.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    The only thing my college cares about is torrents. And even then they don't actually block it. They just give you a fine if they catch you.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    High School's do that sort of thing. College usually doesn't.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]

    Eu*, I keep forgetting that I'm usually one of the few high schoolers on a forum.


     


    *: A wierd ass sound I make sometimes IRL that means "Oh yeah/Dammit" depending on context.

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    We didn't need to know what noises you make. 
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Could you not just have said 'Oh yeah'?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]

    It's something I say so often in real life it sometimes slips through when I'm typing.


    And then I was bored and felt like keeping it in.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]

    "We didn't need to know what noises you make. "


    Because someone having an odd tic truly is a tragedy, kids.


    *Not serious

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    You know no one would've minded if you didn't go out of your way to point it out.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Bluh, not this again.

    Look, Chagen does this kinda thing all the thing (An annoying tic, a weird expression) and we derail about him doing this things again, and again. 

    By now, I'm starting to wonder why don't we just ignore these things and let him be him. Really. who cares.
  • DYREDYRE
    Anyway, as has been said already, high schools are going to be extremely restrictive on internet use because anyone using the internet is doing so during a time in which they are (supposedly) meant to be learning.  If you're in college though, especially if it's a school that has on-campus housing, they're not going to implement filters like that because people live there and use the internet for non-education reasons.  As for my school, torrenting is officially against the rules and you'll get your internet disabled and receive a fine, but as far as I know that only happens if the school receives a complaint from their ISP/a copyright holder.  And aside from that there aren't any restrictions on internet usage, other than possibly a restriction on excessive bandwidth usage, though I dunno about that for sure.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Well, my high school doesn't have many if any restrictions either, so it's not just a postsecondary thing.
  • LouieWLouieW
    Loser
    I am no expert on school internet filters, but I feel like the only ones that sound annoying are those that limit legitimate research/school activity because of overly broad censoring (like banning websites that have the word "game" in them or restricting access to Wikipedia or art sites). Given how classes in high school and below are scheduled in the U.S., it seems like a waste of time to me to be doing much else besides schoolwork online there.

    Juan_Carlos,
    By now, I'm starting to wonder why don't we just ignore these things and let him be him.

    I think that sounds like a good idea. I am not really a fan of derailing a thread to be about a specific poster rather than discussing his or her posts in the thread itself. Otherwise I think people get stuck on silly things a lot of time and make things unnecessarily personal.
  • BecNoirBecNoir
    Mexican fag
    Oh, jeegus. Does your school's filter let you anywhere near any webcomics?

    If so, then you really have no excuse to whine.
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