Irish schools to block myspace, bebo and more from September
There’s a good discussion going on over at Tom Raftery’s web log about access to bebo & other resources in Irish schools. The post says:
Morning Ireland reported this morning that social networking sites MySpace and Bebo will be blocked from all Irish schools from September this year. The reason given for blocking the sites is that they are too time consuming. So far I can’t find any link to confirm this story.
I haven’t found any links either. Head on over to the post where we’ve been discussing the issue. Winds and Breezes has a follow up piece up on it as well.
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Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
I’m surprised that the schools are able to co-ordinate something like this.
Comment by stephen — June 30, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
It was on the front page of the indo today.
My school managed to go from not having internet, to blocking a load of pages in like a week. Not that anyone ever got to used the pcs though -_-
Comment by Stranger — June 30, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
During my Dynasty teachers confiscated contraband fans, marbles, conkers and catapults among other distractions.
Comment by Confucius — July 1, 2006 @ 3:18 am
like whats the big deal??bebo is nothing bad its brilliant social networking is really good and i love meeting new people on bebo prime time talks total bull! i was laughing when they said ‘’sit by your child while there on the internet'’ like come on how sad can they get !! i love bebo its great craic!!
Comment by Debhora — July 3, 2006 @ 6:02 pm
Debhora, your poor punctuation shows just how distracted you were by “brilliant social networking” and other diversions when you were at school.
Comment by Confucius — July 4, 2006 @ 8:59 am
School broadband is managed centrally by HEANet, so it’s fairly easy for this kind of blocking to be done in a short space of time.
Comment by dermo — July 4, 2006 @ 9:02 am
Things have clearly changed since I was in school a mere 5 years ago! my school had 24 PC’s and an ISDN dial up to eircom.net that nobody was ever allowed to use.
Comment by stephen — July 4, 2006 @ 12:59 pm
i can understand schools blocking bebo, but my University I am attending has recently blocked bebo aswel. lolz. it is very time consuming though.
Comment by john — August 28, 2006 @ 4:46 am
how can i get on myspace when it is banned from my school any other web sits….???????????
Comment by jojo — September 7, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
You could try using a website Anonymizer which will act as a proxy between you and the site you wish to access e.g.:
http://anonymouse.org
Chances are that these are blocked also by “the Man”.
Comment by Bok — September 10, 2006 @ 8:20 am