Censorship at work is completely different from censorship at a university. It is beneficial to disallow websites that would distract employees and therefore decrease productivity. However, censoring websites that a student requires for research severely diminishes that student's productivity.
This is not a matter of the difference between school and the so-called "real world". Universities are institutions of learning. If they give higher priority to an overly-protective sense of morality, they have failed to fulfill their basic purpose.
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This is not a matter of the difference between school and the so-called "real world". Universities are institutions of learning. If they give higher priority to an overly-protective sense of morality, they have failed to fulfill their basic purpose.