Internet Curfew for College Students?

140Mandak262Jamuna writes "IIT Bombay, one of the top Indian engineering schools, is restricting internet access to its students. The restriction is simply to cut off all internet access at night from the dorms. The school claims the 24/7/365 internet access is hampering academic performance, personality development and extra curricular activities. Though these are the 'official' reasons, it appears there are other reasons too. Mr Prakash Gopalan, the Dean of Student Affairs, says, 'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'"

Comments

Squishie

[Stanistani]

>'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'

It's a sad commentary about the Simpsons' effect on our culture - that I can only hear Apu's voice when I read this.

Personality development

[morgan_greywolf]

I had 24/7/365 Net xs when I wuz in coll3g3!!! I turn3d 0ut ju5t f1ne!!! LOL!!!!

Solution

[daeg]

$ du -hLs /home/daeg/porn
18G /home/daeg/porn

$ du -hLs /home/daeg/school
29M /home/daeg/school

Ack! Quick, everyone symlink your porn directory into your school directory!

Re:Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember when I was at IIT how students used to burn p0rn CDs and write 'RedHat Linux 7.2' on it. Others (esp. non-CS students) scared of Linux usability never used to lay their hands on them.

Re:Poor Preparation For Life Experience

[Bastard of Subhumani]

Why wouldn't they just get off of their lazy asses and head to the library?

A wild guess here - because even in India, it's not generally considered good form to wank in the libtrary?