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- kasted, on 10/12/2007, -45/+411schools are ***** stupid
- EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -16/+314I would respond and digg this article, but My School blocks this website, so I'm here in spirit.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -21/+260This same thing happend to my school.
I just all my mates to send like the rudest letter to the curriculum council stating that it was a technology news website and that I used it for computing all the time. It was immediately unblocked.
I Digg this! - coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -14/+218Good idea, but unfortunately no one else uses digg at my school so I'd be the only one emailing them.
- AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+186They do this at my school to!
Not only that, but they also block Sourceforge because it is Free/Shareware Software! - gardnmi, on 10/12/2007, -24/+196Maybe its because douches like you keep taking up all the computers to do your lame web surfing you could do at home while other people need the computer for school purposes.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -22/+147Good thing my school thinks they are cool and uses their own filters.
Good thing I also know the administrative username and password so I can bypass the filters and computer security settings anyway - robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -20/+115"Come on people SAVE DIGG!!"
How is this honestly going to hurt digg?
What's next? "Come on people, SAVE MYSPACE!" ? - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -12/+89Can I suggest you continue to go to school. Your grammar need attention.
- mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -12/+88On another note, my high school had a filtering program called SOS, to bypass it, I :
1. Downloaded the shareware version on my home computer, found the registry key that had the "encrypted" password.
2. Set my own admin password on my home computer, looked at the registry key again. Exported said registry key.
3. Made fake site that looked exactly like yahoo.com, except that a single link on the page was actually a link to download said exported registry key.
4. Went to school, told a few friends, went to fake yahoo.com, imported registry key, bam, full admin to filtering software. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+73I sent them this letter:
Secure Computing,
I fail to see why Digg ( http://www.digg.com/ ) is categorized as
"Computing/Internet" in your content filter. Digg is a news website,
providing news in over 40 categories, with technology being one of those
categories. If Digg is blocked for "Computing/Internet" then why is the
New York Times not blocked? The New York Times has a larger technology
section than Digg does.
( http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html )
I hope you'll reconsider this miscategorization. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+65I think they're completely justified in their blocking. Sex, nudity, midget fights, vulgarity, links to illegal downloads, etc frequent digg all the time. You might not have a problem with those things, but schools have certain guidelines they need to follow. Digg might occasionally have stuff that could be useful to a school, but as a social bookmarking site, that means that all of these resources can be found elsewhere. To a school, the bad outweighs the good.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+62Sent em an e-mail last night, heres the reply.
Hello,
http://www.digg.com is correctly categorized as Computing/Internet. If your organization is blocking this category, then you will be denied access to the site.
Please contact your system administrator to unblock the site locally.
Thank you.
SmartFilter Sites
Secure Computing Corporation
sites@smartfilter.com
SO must just be ur school admins blocking this "Computing/Internet" category. - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -23/+77Reasons to filter Digg.
1. Profanity
2. Anti-American propaganda.
3. Religious Intolerance
4. Illegal activities encouraged: not limited to piracy, rights abuse and vandalism.
5. Zero benefit to the education system. - phlux, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52I will likely be dugg down to hell...
I do not have any problem with this. As much as many people would like to deny it information aggregation sites such as digg, slashdot and others do in fact have a marked negative impact on productivity - especially to IT/tech news hungry individuals.
I have actually seriously thought about blocking digg and slashdot and other tech based sites for my entire company and we have 100K employees.
(yes I have the authority to do so)
I love digg. I love news. I love learning.
I would suggest the next evolution of these sites is to take advantage of people spending so much time on sites such as digg and focus on training. Intermix a bit of news/tech/fun info with teaching someone a skill and you will own online attention (amongst geeks) - mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -12/+56"schools are ***** stupid"
school ADMINISTRATORS are ***** stupid*
seriously, when can we draw a line on what is PC and what isn't
the way i see it, they see a site like digg and think, "oh, a user-run content" site, there's gonna be porn!
we have to stop assuming that we can stop EVERY possible port for anything that we don't like. - spadgos, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45so there's going to be less "omgwtfbbq" kiddies on digg? what exactly is the problem here?
- reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42how are you surprised? digg is a crossection of the internet. which include sites that schools dont want children to access, for ether time wasting or inappropriate content
- sjm20k, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47I'd be happy if the blocked digg on my campus - I waste a lot of time reading the most mind numbingly stupid ***** on here to kill time, and regardless of how dumb I know it is, I can't stop looking so I'd love it if someone just shut me out.
- shibz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42maybe you should be paying attention in class instead of reading digg!
haha jk I never paid attention either... just run a SSH server on your home PC... make sure you have the port forwarded and open on your firewall/router and tunnel though it from school using PuTTY and portable firefox. It takes like 5 minutes to set up and 5 seconds to connect to at school.
OpenSSH: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103886&package_id=111688
PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Portable firefox: google it!
This is a nice guide that explains how to tunnel it after you have your SSH server all set up
http://thinkhole.org/wp/2006/05/10/howto-secure-firefox-and-im-with-putty/ - coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -14/+47If they don't give in, try using http://www.freetoview.net (web-based proxy) or put portable Firefox ( http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable ) with the FoxyProxy extension ( http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ ) on a USB stick ($5 for a 32mb at Target) and try one of the many proxies on http://samair.ru/proxy If that doesn't work, then TP your school's network admin's office, I recommend toilet paper wads with a little soap (sticks good).
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Exactly. There is no reason someone should be on digg at school. There is little purpose to be on digg during school hours unless you needed a current events article. But that can be found at other sites that aren't filled with profanity and that don't encourage piracy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+39You're all ***** morons. Digg isn't a news site, it has no educational value whatsoever. There's no reason not to block it.
- mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37"that's true. unfortunately there's daily titties on digg so your theory is incorrect."
well, who cares about titties, im gay! - SPThom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Here I go, outing myself.
I work at a school district, a rather large one (>60,000 kids) and am actually one of 3-4 people directly in charge of the web content filter. Hate to break it to all you kids, but we aren't the scary fascist dictators you expect us to be.
Why does digg get blocked? Well, yes, there is a fairly regular supply of stories considered NSFW--plenty of T&A as has already been mentioned. There's also a social networking aspect to it, and a decent amount of "security-sensitive" content related to hacking, password cracking, etc. But we don't block these things for the sake of oppressing anyone, for deciding what they should & shouldn't look at. We block it for liability purposes. If a kid gets into porn, or hacks into a system--even just one of our systems--or meets someone from online, or plans a fight against another student, and if they utilized school equipment (computer & network) to do so, we're liable. It sounds rather absurd, but it's true. We have to maintain compliance with CIPA--the Children's Internet Protection Act. The main aim of CIPA (at least as I understand it) is to protect children from predators and from each other, and granted, Digg isn't a huge threat in those respects (don't worry, we block MySpace too). But CIPA is an all-or-nothing thing. :(
It's unfortunate that we've gotta keep Digg and other good sites blocked... I know most diggers are smarter than to get themselves in the type of situations CIPA is designed to protect them from. If you want to be mad at somebody, be mad at the dumb kids in your schools... the ones who are always getting abducted by people on MySpace. :P - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -13/+35This is an outrage! Perposterous!
Hey wait... why the ***** are you on digg at school?
Do your ***** work.
Last thing I needed at school was another distraction.
I love digg, but do your damn work first. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25The very fact that you think that Digg is a huge tome of knowledge is the reason why you need to spend LESS time doing crap while at school and more time preparing yourself for the life of reality.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Use duggmirror.com? or, you know... do school work since there is no justification for having digg in school.
- soupir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22"Digg is a huge tome of knowledge that no school of any level can teach you."
I love Digg and everything, but that's just silly. The "Internets" are the huge tome of knowledge, and they can still access that. "No school of any level." That's good. That's real good. - bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23If you are caught using a proxy at my school your account will be suspended. They blocked digg.com and there is nothing I can do but complain. I do not think that will be possible since my school even blocks freakin wikipedia.
atleast when you are surfing you do not get a big red ACESS DENIED message with a black background. Before you had to close the explorer to be able to go back and everyone would know you went somewhere you were not supposed to. - mississippiman, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31I work at a school, and i do block PARTS of digg (mainly the games) other than that i don't see why they would do it. Digg is full of useful info.
but yeah, gotta block the games - S4MF1SHER, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23@monergism
"Me fail english? That's unpossible." - MnMs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22As much as I love digg, I really don't see any reason why the educational system would benefit from unblocking digg. School is for learning, not digging.
- kagelump, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21i think our school network admins all read digg
so its not blocked here :D (same with slashdot and neopets) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+27I ride the short bus.
None of my classmates know what digg is. Or how to get dressed in the morning. We all have downs. Yay. - Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Blocked at my school. *****! I use duggmirror.com tho.
- Xanadude, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20I don't know of any companies that do this, but I've always thought it would be a good idea to set up a recreational websurfing room, where you can go *on your break* to surf whatever you want (well, except child porn and Paris Hilton fansites). And it would be unlogged, free of any corporate snooping. But when you're at your desk, stuff like Digg, Slashdot, Fark, etc. is totally locked out.
- vaduzl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21All children should have right to post ***** statements that get dugg down .
Im just kidding We here at Digg are a warm supporting place of ***** - TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -17/+32They always tell me to get off Digg in the library at lunch. They don't understand that I'm reading news. I don't know why they would be discouraging kids from staying up to date on current stuff.
- gback2000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17This is really bad. How are the students going to do any research on their anti-Walmart, anti-religion,anti-PS3, and anti-Bush/Cheney papers.
- danjal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14sorry piss off alot of people, but your at school to learn, not to digg.
- KIERANMULLEN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Where will I get HDR images?
- SPThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@Nok1:
Believe it or not, we've had to fight very hard to keep Google from being blocked, too. The differences between it and Digg is that (1) Google can be more easily justified as having educational value, and (2) it's a lot easier to parse out the Google features we *need* to block from the features we really don't want to block. (For instance, it's easy to block out Gmail, Google Homepages, Blogspot, Translate, Image Search, etc. without blocking the regular Google search. By its nature of being entirely user-contributed, it's much, much more difficult to block out just the inappropriate parts of Digg.
Q: "Man. Do you know how much more porn/social networking aspects/bomb making/inappropriate and illegal activity links there are?"
A: Yes, and to the best of our abilities, we keep those sites blocked as well.
And yes, regardless of how minescule the chance is that Digg links to something inappropriate, we have to block it for that reason. That's just the policy. Blame the lawsuit-happy parents. Or the politicians who make too-broad statements about what is & isn't social networking. It's hard enough for a public school to make ends meet as it is... We can't afford to leave ourselves open to litigation, or fines, or whatever might come from a broad interpretation of CIPA that would fall to our disadvantage.
If Kevin or somebody were to make a kid-safe portal to Digg, I'd not only be the first one making sure it's unblocked, but I'd be *encouraging* its use. - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I'm glad digg is being blocked at schools. That just means less annoying kids making annoying statements and fad jokes.
If I hear "Will it blend" one more time... - firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Add anti-microsoft, anti-RIAA, anti-MPAA, anti-FOX NEWS, and pro-linux to the list...
- EmberX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The reason it get's blocked is because it's a user based system and content is created by users, there is no way to verify that the information and links on the site are "safe". Stop complaining and start using the computer lab properly.
- lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13@Windows9d8
You are absolutely retarded. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11jeff..seriously...with each post, you are destroying a little more of your own credibility.
When you contribute to society, and therefore pay taxes, you will have a very different idea as to how you want that money spent. I am not paying for dumb ***** like you to waste your school day on some lame site. - RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Yeah schools are over rated, hey everyone lets boycott schools because they're ***** stupid
insert sarcasm here, here, and here. - rpaturi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Why would some one need Digg at school ? I would block it if it interfears with normal activities. Infact It is blocked in some companies too (along with slashdot and reddit) as people were wasting time on these sites. PS I like digg/reddit though I have atleast 20 or so most valuable sites out of digg/reddit which I would not have gone to otherwise.
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