Monday, February 19th 2007
US Senate aims to ban Wikipedia from schools/libraries
Senator Ted Stevens is working to pass senate bill 49. Senate bill 49's goal is to reduce the seduction and rape of children over the internet. It does this by making access to interactive websites illegal on a school/library network (or at least the ones that get federal internet subsidies). The theory behind this is that interactive sites can be used to seduce children into meeting sex offenders over the internet. Unfortunately, useful sites like Amazon, Wikipedia, and TechPowerUp are considered "interactive", meaning that they would be banned if this bill was passed.
Source:
The Inquirer
45 Comments on US Senate aims to ban Wikipedia from schools/libraries
which is why i run a local proxy out of my computer. ssssh don't tell anyone!
and to get around it, all we need is a teachers password, which we have :D
so hes been expelled.
only the login to her internet/emails
so i probably cant login on a computer using it
we could try i guess...
Yeah dont worry random, we arnt so stupid as to do anything with her account (i like her *drools*). The knowledge of a teachers password is for, lets call them recreational purposes
:toast:
One of the teachers was dumb enough to trust me with the school admin password :p
But ive known that for 2 years now...but as ex_reven said, im not dumb enough to do anything stupid :p
Oh and we didnt use a keylogger, we just saw them enter it in ;)
we're having a problem at our school w/ admin passwords too (i'm a tech, in case you couldn't tell). all the local administrator passwords for every single terminal is the same. and really easy (can you spell admin backwards?). and its hardwired into the os of every single system. and teachers tell it to students!:slap:
well, any student can no go in and log in as a local administrator. they have no network rights, but with local admin privs, they can seriously mess up the host terminal. then i have to go out and fix (re-image) it. gets irritating..:banghead:
the worst part? we can't change it unless we change the image. and if we change the image, we have to reimage every single one of the 400 computers in the school. and then the server will die....:cry: :cry: :cry:
ok sorry for griping.
How is that the wrong thread? Have you read some of the posts here? WHY would they ban Wikipedia? To keep children from wandering across inappropriate material? My point, you missed, was if parents kept an eye on there children, the governments' wouldn't have to. It's more profitable for a government to issue a ban on this or that then it is to address the cause. If the children had more of there parents time the government would have less. After all, government is just a business.
i understand that you also mean that parents should know where their children are going when they leave the house, but young kids would more than likely lie, saying they are going to a friends house or something.
It happens alot here, i know heaps of people that say they are going to a mates house, when secretly they are all sneaking out for a smoke/get drunk in a park somewhere...
Being overprotective is sometimes just as bad as not doing anything at all
wonder what this would do to classes like my comp class where we had to research blogs,wikis and other interactive internet communication forms then wright a report on them comparig at least 3 diffrent forms of online communication.
my advice is everybody whos intrested in this kind of stuff join www.eff.org/ and get acctive, they are GREAT and acctualy fight for out digital rightes!!!!!
this includes you people abroad/outside the usa, because if it happens here its gonna impact you eventulay as well.
ITS NOT A BIG TRUCK!!!!!!!! ITS A SERIES OF TUBES!!!!
check the link for proof.
lovenet.ytmnd.com/
i got a law that i think needs passed.
if you dont understand a subject you cant vote on it.
if ur not part of the "net generation" you cant vote on "net related laws"
who wants some 70yo MORON making dessitions about how they can use something he clearly dosnt have a fuking clue about?
and could somebody save the audio from that site and send it to me or post it, i want it for an email but cant seem to find a way to save it(cant find my webpage extractor)