How can I go to certain websites in school that are blocked by their website blockers? Sites like MySpace and AIMExpress. Hopefully then won't show up when they see the websites students have viewed too.

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• Not to mention the fact that the computers at school are technically property of the state or local government, which makes fooling around with them a pretty serious crime.

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  by Anonymous on April 4th, 2007

• Blocking websites at schools is cencorship, plain and simple. Whether or not school computers are property of the government is irrelevent. It becomes the same thing as banning books.

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  by DaBigToe on September 26th, 2007

• No, blocking websites at school is a security precaution to protect the school's property (the computers). It's not the same thing as banning books at all, and it's not irrelevant that the school computers are government property either. The computers belong to the school, which means they are granting you permission to use them. They can allow or disallow whatever type of content they wish, since it's their property. Browse whatever sites you want on your OWN computer, in your own home. Don't expect to be allowed to abuse someone else's property that they've so graciously granted you permission to borrow.

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  by Anonymous on September 26th, 2007

• Well, in the same sense, the books in the library are property of the school, so by your logic they can 'filter' out certain books too. If the computers were only blocking websites where kids could load programs that were dangerous to the computer, I would agree, but the majority of the websites that are blocked don't fit into that catagory. I also wouldn't call using school computers 'graciously borrowing'; if the students didn't exist in the school the computers, in turn, wouldn't exist.

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  by DaBigToe on September 27th, 2007

• You must have a pretty screwed up sense of entitlement, then, if you think you should be allowed to abuse school property at will. It's not your computer, so you have to abide by the rules set forth by the owner of the computer if you wish to continue using those machines. Yes, the library can certainly choose not to offer certain books. That's not censorship, either. ANY site on the internet can potentially contain malicious programming that can harm the computers. It's up to the network admins at the school to decide WHICH sites to trust (and allow students to browse) and which sites to block. If you don't like it, then do your web surfing at home.

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  by Anonymous on September 27th, 2007

• It's not only protecting computers, it's protecting STUDENTS. Have you ever realized how many sexual predators are on the Internet? do you realize how many of them use things like MySpace and Facebook?
  
  Have you EVER had a sexual predator come straight out of the pages of a book?
  
  And, honestly, what is so important about getting on MySpace at SCHOOL rather than getting an education?
  
  Oh, and yeah, libraries CAN and DO ban books. Ever heard of the "top 100 banned books." Do an Internet search. You'll be amazed.

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  by KagomeShuko on October 4th, 2007

• of course books can be banned in libraries, that why you don't get porn in school libraries.

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on March 6th, 2008

• WTF!??!?! Who the hell are you people!? If you don't have a constructive answer then STFU. Are you under the impression that you're somehow going to make us see the error in our ways and decide to become like you? NO! We're going to keep searching until we find the Web site that allows us to bypass school technology and use the site we want to. Cut the self-righteous nonsense out.
  
  For those that need viable information here is a link: http://www.ehow.com/how_2258749_go-forbidden-websites-school-not.html

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  by spectral99 on November 4th, 2009