Comments on: The Quick 1: 1 Moment in Internet Censorship

By: Cooper

Cooper — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:56:00 +0000

At my high school I had to look up things for a history project, and a lot of things were blocked. I saw a foreign phrase on one of the not yet found sites, and found all translators were blocked. At school!

I’ve even found links on their homepage to be blocked, which is just crazy. Never tried seeing if mental floss is blocked.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0000

Another teacher – I teach Gifted & Talented students, so by definition, need more than the usual “kill and drill” textbook type lessons.
But anything with “creativity” or “music” or even (my favorite) “personal productivity” gets blocked.
How are we supposed to get our kids ready for the real world, when we are not allowed to show them what’s out there?

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:27:00 +0000

At my job (a hospital) its more fun whats NOT blocked. Craigslist is not blocked, but all the personal pages are… Minus the men seeking men page.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:25:00 +0000

My work blocks many of the usual suspects for the usual reasons. My least favorite is that eBay is blocked. I quickly found that eBay.ca is NOT blocked and I can handle most transactions through it. Still did my Christmas shopping there.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:10:00 +0000

Almost everything is accessible here, for some reason (not complaining!). The only things my company have blocked are music streaming sites. Somehow, a phone card site was also blocked (perhaps calls can be made through the site?), so I have to top up the card at home.

By: Michaela

Michaela — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:38:00 +0000

Most everything is blocked at my school (we can’t even view google images anymore!), but my connections with the computer science team have made such restrictions less of a problem.

By: peid

peid — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:30:00 +0000

We’ve got the usual bannings – youtube and facebook during workhours, along with streaming video, adult, gambling etc. The usual page is blocked message comes up, but it also has on it the reason why its blocked – games, adult and all that, but the one I love is having a site blocked for the reason of being “tasteless” – http://www.cracked.com was one that got hit with that label.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:04:00 +0000

My work does the umbrella thing too: many things are “tasteless”, but it also blocks humor, games, dating, social networking, and so on. Often times, the categories the sites are listed under are very far reaching, but there’s nothing I can do. Therefore, I have no Myspace, no Facebook, no YouTube (nothing with video at all, actually… we don’t even have SPEAKERS!!) but dear mental-floss is still accesible, albeit without the vids.

However, through trial and error, many of my co-workers and I have found ways to circumnavigate, and access our favorite sites. And for those who are desperate, happy holidays:

https://vtunnel.com

Type it in exactly as you see it, and surf sneakily away. Not as good as the real thing, but it’s still something.

P.S. I consider myself lucky enough to have sweet talked one of our I.T. guys into installing Snood on my computer. Small victories!

By: Vickey

Vickey — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:09:00 +0000

My e-mail is blocked. A co-worker has AOL, and he’s not blocked. Facebook, youtube, any streaming video. I can get CNN and Mental floss. Lottery website just got blocked recently.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:30:00 +0000

At my high school we have some sites blocked for “educational content”. Also, it blocks Flickr and most blogs for being “online storage”.