University Networks Block Student Project

An anonymous reader writes "A computer science student at University College London put together FitFinder as a bit of a joke — it's been described as a cross between Twitter and personal ads, and it rapidly became very popular. The university took exception to this and started by blocking the site from being accessed on campus. Not content with this, a few weeks later it fined the student £300 and had him take the site down completely. Currently, the site is still offline, although there is a petition with several thousand signatures requesting its return. In the meantime, a site called PhitFinder has appeared, claiming to have no link to the original."

Comments

Re:what has the university to do with it?

[Tanuki64]

Never said media. But Slashdot is part of a world wide society. And if something stupid like this happens, many people automatically think 'America'. So what do you think this could mean?

Re:what has the university to do with it?

[allo]

you are good at not answering the question. okay it was in london, but what has the university to do with the student's project?