High school internet blocks right-leaning websites, but not left-leaning.

[Perd Hapley]

Can't say that I'm shocked.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/06/19/jesus-republicans-and-nra-banned-on-school-website/

[230RN]

Interesting.  I await a final update from the Superintendent.

There used to be a website called noindoctrinaton dot org, where college students could bring up documented allegations about their instructors' biases, and where these instructors could respond.  Most of the complaints were pretty well detailed.

Some allegations were very serious (to my mind), but the instructors involved rarely responded to them.

It's gone now, but here is what the Democratic Underground (DU) had to say about it at the time (ca. 2003):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x78667

The comments are interesting, and by the way, there was an open forum on the noindoctrination website, despite what DU said.

One comment by leftyandproud was particularly interesting to me:
 

My sociology professor was a socialist.
My economics professor said marxism could still work.
My history teacher believes its time for a working class revolution.


I don't think we can deny there is a bias, but I aint complaining!

(Bolding mine.)

Don't know if there's anything new to compare to noindoctrination dot org, but the link in the original post was suuure interesting, no boudt adout it.

Terry

[lee n. field]

Superintendant may not even have known.

They said they are waiting for Dell SonicWall to clarify its process for assigning websites to categories.

I support a couple of those.  One is in place at a school, just so they can use the content filtering.

All it is is a check list of categories, plus an option to whitelist and blacklist custome urls.  At the school I support, I tagged off a few of the obvious categories,  and I add sites to the whitelist as requested.  "Weapons" is one category.

(Note: one of the changes with the latest firmware, was to remove LGBT as a separate filterable category.)

[Nick1911]

Ah, highschool content filters.  That was my first training into defeating censorship via web proxy's and other SSL pipes.  SSH was one of my favorites.  ssh -D 9000 user@some-server-or-ip.com gives you a local SOCKS connections you can pass though.  Then all you have to do is set a SOCKS5 proxy in firefox's settings.

My highschool also had "voluntary drug testing".  It was voluntary... but had to be signed before a parking pass would be issued.  And thus was my first introduction into forging documents.  I was as clean as the pure white snow, but had a moral issue with the government testing my bodily fluids for any purpose.

And people say students don't learn anything in highschool...

[RevDisk]

One of the primary reasons why I keep a Linode handy. SSH to my server, then out to the world.