Yeah, they probably burned Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" too.

If it was done as part of a wider restriction against computers, he'd probably be in favour of that.

I'm talking about on the computer. Last I checked there was a story about a dog, that could travel through time and saved Earth from various aliens in armour with ray guns, what a magically weird place a library is.

I know at my high school they only unblocked YouTube in my last year, because some kids convinced the board that it was a study/research tool. Naturally it was a fiasco.

Heh, Youtube only came into existence in my last year.

What's annoying is when they block stuff that doesn't make sense. My college blocks tons of stuff under 'pormography' or 'violence', despite a lot of it being very much non-pormographic or non-violence, and that they're are videos on YouTube with [censored] and violence in them anyway (I once spent an entire free period watching Polish football holigans kick the [censored] out of each other thanks to Ross Kemp).

They also apparently block LGBT news site Pink News under the non-descript 'special interests' tag, which has a subtle air of homophobia about it, intentional or not.

i had a teacher once that used you tube as part of his curriculum. it was quite successful.

Really? None of my teachers ever tried that. The unblocking of YouTube really led to teachers trying to avoid bringing their classes to the library or computer labs to do work because it would never get done. Then a kid discovered a way to install Warcraft 3 on the school server...

Please don't quit the internet EF. These forums wouldn't be the same without you.

But don't get all your stuff stolen either.

We've got Halo:CE, Age of Empires and I think Call of Duty 2 on ours. But yeah, my politics teacher uses YouTube all the time. It's really useful for getting up debate shows and programs that we don't have the DVDs for.

One of my lecturers used to use it for videos he'd uploaded of political events that were relevant to the course. Unfortunately for him, we were able to see which videos he'd favourited.

Kind of sad when people intentionally do that, do they really have nothing better to do than hoping to find someone's email account on a public library and then deciding to link pormographic sites.

They were just waiting for that moment to ruin your life but they wouldn't even be there to witness your reaction.

sad.

^

Can't really adding anything to that since I refuse to use public computers for anything. Only thing I even did even remotely close to that was web based gaming. They stored an email address + password for the game which was it.

I have to say though if you do find it necessary, make sure to change your password when you are done and get your online service back.

Well, to be fair, it kinda looks like a special interest website. Do they actually use the 'special interests' tag to block other special interests?

Depends on what they mean by 'special interest'. I can get onto the site of an extreme metal music magazine that's way more explicit than anything on Pink News, for example and I'd say that a love of extreme death metal is more 'special' than being gay or whatever.

Yeah, we had Halo, I think Unreal Tournament and AoE as well. Now in university it has been useful, for the same reasons as yours for pulling up debates in classes. My Greek civ. professor showed us the Monty Python sketch of philosopher football as we studied philosophers

Definitely useful in "higher education" but in high school, where mostly nobody tries YouTube can be a disaster.

Marx was right, that goal was offside.

Yep! And that was a great scene.