Comments on: Internet access on NSW student laptops restricted to whitelist

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:00:27 +0000

Will the filters be removed when we leave year 12?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:50:57 +0000

i recived my laptop this year and when i tried to get on a website the block said that the website was classed as “det and tafe studies for education”, WTF?????

By: Jett

Jett — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:51:57 +0000

this is so crap i just got it this year y dont they just block the sites at skool and then leave it to do what eva at home, caz then we may as well be using the other computers at there house so they can talk to there friends so gay i wanna swqap wiv one of the teachers so they can see how it is to have everything blocked and every second site blocked lol they put msn on it but the wrong version like how stupid

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:34:40 +0000

censoring is fair enough, for porn and violence gore sites. that’s it. Having approved only websites is ridiculous, even a cat species website was blocked, and a bunch of other “child friendly” sites. I mean, just put a mirror at the back of the classroom so you know they aren’t on porn or anything. well maybe not a mirror but they could just sit down and think of an idea for five minutes that is better than their current one. But the idea that the government is filtering what they believe to be right or wrong or controversial, is silly.

By: caitlyn

caitlyn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:17:47 +0000

Our class was writing reviews of a book concerning the issue of racism. We had to send them to our teacher via email and in the essays we all wrote the word “nigger”. The emails weren’t delivered instead they sent it to a quarantine area, and we all got warnings from the DET saying that if we include offensive language in our emails again, they will ban us from accessing the internet

By: caitlyn

caitlyn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:08:20 +0000

pornography websites should be blocked but other than that i dont see any reason why all the other websites should be blocked. You can really find useful information on yahoo ask and answer and that is blocked. I also think that hotmail is nothing harmful, come on its just email! Social networking sites are not that bad. All those ppl who got killed or kidnapped on whatever on facebook, its because they were stupid enough to add strangers and share private info. From what i know facebook has a privacy setting that allows you to controll what you share and it also asks if you allow ppl to add you, or if you allow your profile to appear on search engines. If you dont like someone you can ignore their friend request and you can also block them.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:57:04 +0000

ITS SO NOT FAIR, everything is blocked. The internet is big and even sites that are not educational sometimes contain information that is useful. And blocking them is unnecessary and really hinders students’ learning. Learning is not all about maths, science, english, there are other subjects as well, like commerce , PDHPE… And some websites that teachers recommend are also blocked. Subjects like commerce need access to one of those uncategorised websites and its very inconvenient for teachers to request a site to be unblock and some teachers cant be bothered!

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:59:37 +0000

I would understand if they blocke explicit sites but not you tube and facebook. iv learent so much of you tube ,probably morr than ive learnt at school. they should allow youtube at home and at school. if they dont want us to be doing stupid things when we are ment to be in class learning. just block stuff at school not at home

By: IT Student Yr 12

IT Student Yr 12 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:35:33 +0000

Protecting the students? Censorship is bad in all its forms, yes in schools they need to be carefull about what they allow students to access on school grounds, but the system currently in place is a joke. It is practically impossible to look at every page on the web, therefore so many extremely usefull sites are blocked, and the only reason being that they don’t know what’s in it. What student wants to look up porn at school anyway? Okay so maybe year 9 boys, so this being the case why don’t they change the filter system to be more lenient in the senior years?

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:39:24 +0000

sorry about my grammer and spelling above me. :S I forgot to check it.