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deadman · Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: Suwon

As of this week I can no longer access YouTube from the school computers. I get this message:

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Funny, the only site blocked at my PS is Dave Duebles... Very Happy

bosintang

Me neither Sad

I can't access the Canadian newspaper, the globe and mail, either. It's better that Korean students are not exposed to those foreigners and their devilish ideas I guess.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Youtube is always blocked. At various times the Guardian, Antiwar.com, and various news sites are blocked. When I'm looking for pictures to go with my vocab words and do a search for 'string', however, 2/3 of what come up are g-string pics.

How I'd love to fire the net-nanny.

bosintang · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

mehamrick · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Location: South Korea

I just told my school what I needed for my classes and they unblocked it all.. just have to give them a list and they should be able to do it.

icicle · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do Korea

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

www.hidemyass.com

DD

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Seems to be a general campaign to block foreign sites deemed innapropriate, often including daveslcafe. In the PC rooms too.

Its a similar situation here in Taiwan, the nanny state is strong- although not as bad.

insam · Joined: 17 May 2007

the message suggests that the program has the ability to customize the pages. put in a request as mentioned above.

this is not uncommon even in public libraries in the states. often you have to request to have the filter turned off because children and adults alike can walk up and gain access. no big deal, we still have access to more information than most people did in the 1430's.

Toon Army · Joined: 12 Mar 2007

use a proxy such as below and type in the URL.....you should be able to access whatever site you want (unless the proxy has been blocked also of course Wink

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http://razorthought.com/surfsafe.html

freethought · Joined: 13 Mar 2005

youtube is likely blocked because of bandwidth. I had it when I first got here, but then it got blocked. I asked around no one seemed to know anything, and so when the comp/tech guy came in I requested he come to my classroom. I gave him my list of blocked sites which included such dangerous sites as: google.(japan, canada and a few others), ESPN, youtube, and a couple of others. He couldn't get those to work either. He then tried a few other sites. Gambling was OK, half naked korean girls were ok, and I'm pretty sure he also checked a full blown porn page as well.

You really have to wonder about these people...