[HPFGU-OTChatter] Big Brother school board

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

Janis Joplin, call your agent....

--- lupinesque <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > --jenny from ravenclaw, who may not be able to
> access HPFGU at her 
> > school anymore because the NYC Board of Ed has a
> new policy of 
> > "academic" sites only or they'll cut the school's
> internet access 
> off 
> > completely. Hello, Big Brother!
> *******************************
> 
> Way to go, NYC.  How about making teachers use
> coin-op copiers too?  
> And you'd better get rid of paper towels, too.  It's
> so easy to 
> break into the dispensers--those sneaky teachers
> might walk off with a 
> whole pack.
> 
> So, what do we need to do to qualify as an academic
> site?

You might get in touch with Bennet Haselton over at
Peacefire (webmaster at peacefire.org); he's running the
major anti-blocking software campaign and might have
some helpful hints in this regard.  This organization
is student-started and student-run.  The motto over
there is one that I endorse:  "It's not a crime to be
smarter than your parents".  They also have released
an anti-blocking bit of software that might be of
interest as well.

I note with both interest and my usual Snape-like
humor that the blocked site of today is one on _Jane
Eyre_ (http://eserver.org/fiction/jane-eyre.txt).  The
'CYBERsitter' travesty also blocks *all* sites at the
College of Humanities at CMU (http://hss.cmu.edu/).

I don't need to remark on this sort of idiocy being
one of the hallmarks of the current paranoia in the
US, do I?

Cheers,

Drieux



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