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Academic Network Censorship?

Posted by Cliff on from the balancing-student-rights-and-network-usability dept.

Mark asks: "I'm the President of the Brock University Students' Union, and recently our IT geeks completely cut off access to the Kazaa network for the entire school. It concerns me, while I understand the need to save bandwidth.. what's next? File sharing bandwidth has been throttled for quite some time here, this is the first all out "restriction" we have seen. As a Students' Union we advocate on behalf of the 13,000+ students here, and we need to develop policy around network 'censorship.' I'd love to hear your experiences and suggestions. Our website is here"

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  1. Jesus christ. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They can also pay for the CDs and movies they want to steal on KaZaA, too, can't they?

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"