I feel that I am in a fairly unique situation, as I am Brigham Young University, which is run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). On our campus, quite a lot of stuff is banned, such as alcohol, tobacco, even caffine. As far as the internet goes, I pay 12 bucks a month to get a 10m/sec LAN connection to multiple T1s, which is nice. The downside is that there is an extenive amount of filtering, under many categories, such as: sex adult nudity comedy (?) e-commerce -- This one just came on today, and I'm officially pissed. I can work my way around it by using my parent's aol account, but it's a pain. why should I not be able to buy things on the internet? Anyway, there are about 20 other categories, as near as I can tell. We can still use napster, though, and it's not hard to find mp3s, or even bootlegged versions of the matrix floating around our network. I wrote IT services a complaint about the ecommerce stuff, but have yet to reply. I think I'll write the president of the university if this doesn't get fixed. -Jonathan W.
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I feel that I am in a fairly unique situation, as I am Brigham Young University, which is run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). On our campus, quite a lot of stuff is banned, such as alcohol, tobacco, even caffine. As far as the internet goes, I pay 12 bucks a month to get a 10m/sec LAN connection to multiple T1s, which is nice. The downside is that there is an extenive amount of filtering, under many categories, such as: sex adult nudity comedy (?) e-commerce -- This one just came on today, and I'm officially pissed. I can work my way around it by using my parent's aol account, but it's a pain. why should I not be able to buy things on the internet? Anyway, there are about 20 other categories, as near as I can tell. We can still use napster, though, and it's not hard to find mp3s, or even bootlegged versions of the matrix floating around our network. I wrote IT services a complaint about the ecommerce stuff, but have yet to reply. I think I'll write the president of the university if this doesn't get fixed. -Jonathan W.