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Email (and Filters) for all Australian schools
Tom Davies writes: "Every student and teacher in the state of New South Wales will have an email address and web access by March. And porn filtering to go with it, according to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald."
Amen on that. I work in a university library and people believe that it is their god-given right to look at all the goatse.cx they can fit on their screens.
Of course, telling them that the computers where bought with student funds and not gov't funds, meaning we can censor them, usually gets an annoyed response. Just like what is happening with this topic.
People like this boggle my mind. I am a member of the ACLU allright? It's not like I don't believe in free speech and all the men's gaping a**holes you can see, but not in a student-funded library intended for academic use only OR in schools where kids should be learning - not masturbating to the latest photoshopped Britney Spears pr0n.
People should be HAPPY that they decided to blacklist the stuff and not simply filter it (shudder, filtering software is horrid, horrid stuff) which would honestly hurt kids freedom of speach. Really, this isn't very much of an issue. You are in school to learn, not to loook at all the porn you can handle.