Conservative Sites BANNED in Schools.....

It would appear to be the school.....but I think they should look into others across the nation.

 

how do you know this? what software was used to block them?

 

I picked this up a couple days afterwards. It was the Program the school was using. The Firewall and program belongs to Dell SonicWall.



Yet while Christian and pro-life sites were off-limits, Nonnewaug students had direct access to Islam-guide.com and Planned Parenthood. Lampart claimed the firewall was very deliberate in what it block and left unblocked:

Lampart informed the Superintendent, Jody Goeler, of the system's bigotry and spoke before the Board of Education Monday.

The school is against blocking any internet site from a student or teacher, Debra Carlton, Goeler's assistant, told Townhall. The filter was entirely due to and created by the school’s firewall protection system: Dell SonicWALL.

“[We] don’t select which websites are blocked and which are not,” Carlton stated. She added that, aside from pornographic, Nonnewaug High School would never attempt to block their students from any website.

The Board of Education has acknowledged the gravity of the situation and has vowed to begin an investigation.....snip~

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahj...legedly-blocking-conservatives-sites-n1853037

 

well there ya go, it was not the school blocking them, but the 3rd party software they were using, my bet it they switch to something else, I would recommend OPENDNS, it's free and works great

 

Someone had to install and explain that out to them.....Don't you think?

Also.....if this is the case. Then now they have a very good reason to check schools across the country. That uses this Dell SonicWall.

I doubt it is a coincidincy leaving access to the Demos sites and the others mentioned.

 

obviously not, sounds like sonixwall blocked the sites, have to ask them

 

now here was a republican school banning

"Student’s Recording of Teacher’s Views Leads to a Ban on Taping "

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/nyregion/01tape.html

"After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class without an instructor’s permission, and has added training for teachers on the legal requirements for separating church and state."

 

Yeah and here is the USA piece on it.....as you can see it was for the Entire School District and for two different towns. Plus it mentions many other CT schools use the same program. Of course they were saying a filter was applied and this was unintended. One does need to question as to how that filter would not see so called Hate Speech coming from the Left.....yet only discerned Speech from the Right as Hate and something to look out for.



In a written statement, Regional School District No. 14, which represents the towns of Woodbury and Bethlehem, says "it is obviously critical to block specific categories of websites as required by law," including pornographic sites. But "the blocking of otherwise appropriate websites, regardless of political or religious viewpoints, is wrong."

The statement, signed by board of education Chair John Chapman and Vice Chair Maryanne Van Aken, directs Nonnewaug High School's principal and director of technology to establish "an expedited process" to unblock "appropriate sites.''

Regional School District 14 uses the same software — Dell's SonicWALL — as many other Connecticut school districts, the statement says.

Lampart says a school district official told him that a "politics/activism" filter was put in place to prevent hate speech from finding its way into the schools.

Chapman says some categories of websites were blocked because of "how the parameters were set in the filtering criteria, and we are confident it has been remedied."

Jody Goeler, the school district's superintendent, says "unintended filtering" occurred.....snip~

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lican-conservative-websites-blocked/11275317/

 

from your link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lican-conservative-websites-blocked/11275317/

"
The district's technology committee "does not look at allowing or blocking specific sites," she says. "Nobody has that job."

The school district doesn't have "the time or interest in searching out individual sites or even specific patterns of sites," Goeler says.
"

 

Yeah and this one says.....it was unintended filtering. Which says nothing as to how that hate speech comes down, divided and measured up to do what it is, suppose to do. So while that committee says it does not look at allowing or blocking specific sites.....it still will need to remedy out. How that Hate speech filter works when it computes ideologies.

Jody Goeler, the school district's superintendent, says "unintended filtering" occurred.....snip~

 

So let's see, we have one student (Andrew Lampart) at one high school in Connecticut (Nonnewaug High School) claiming that his school's firewall protection blocked access exclusively to "conservative" websites with no other verification based upon the link and we're supposed to believe that as being a fact?

Are even "social conservatives" really stupid enough to believe that there is anything factual about the story?

Of course many "social conservatives" claim that any website that provides actual "information" related to a subject is a "liberal" website because "social conservatives" live in a bubble where facts and information are not important. Only "liberals" care about facts and information so any website that provides that must be liberal according the "social conservative" logic apparently. So long as they have BS allegations based upon completely unsupport hearsay from unreliable and/or unknown sources that have never been verified they seem to be quite happy.

And still they wonder why they're consider to be ignorant and stupid people? Perhaps if they ever showed any signs of intelligence people would have a better opinion of them.

 

I read this whole thing this way. The filter blocked political/activism sites with no specific target at conservatives. But since there are so many conservative activist sites on the internet it appeared that way.

I missed the part of the news story that talked about the states official GOP website being blocked, and if true that is worthy of investigation.

Many conservatives consider educational and scientific publishings to be inherently liberal. Thus in their minds this filter seems politically motivated. I am not sure this matches very well with the objective facts.

 

Ah, so some actual information on the firewall filter. Well then it's no wonder that most of the websites filtered would be "conservative" in nature because overwhemingly "hate groups" in the United States are associated with "conservative" ideologies. That doesn't imply that the broad criteria used by the filter didn't inadvertantly block some non-hate group "conservative" websites but a filter to block hate groups would certainly block more "conservative" websites than "liberal" websites because very few "liberal" organizations are "hate" groups.

 

"What", the School Investigation fooled you.....Right. They just went and conducted an investigation Based on what One kid said and only by what he said. Is that how you figured it out.

Perhaps you should have read further and went with what the School Superintendent said.

As to all that other crap about Social Conservatives and you doing all that thinking for them.....you might want to let them explain it out themselves. As I don't think you even come close to explaining it for them. Not even if you had.....how to directions.

Oh and I doubt USA is about reporting because they are socially conservative. Might be a clue.....Just sayin!

 

Well, I doubt The GOP Official Website could even be considered inadvertent.

 

Partisan Hack much?

 

Who in their right mind would support this? I say this as a liberal by the way.

 

Come to the dark side. We won't ban you, no matter what you say.

 

Mornin' Robini. Hopefully no one.....but there are those who try to be different. On purpose. Just sayin!