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YouTube banned in Australian schools
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article published on 1 March, 2007
Google Inc.'s popular video sharing site, YouTube has been banned in Government schools in Victoria, Australia's second most populous state. The 1600 schools in the region have blocked YouTube due to an assault on a student that was later uploaded to the video sharing site. Education Services Minister Jacinta Allan said the ban was made to fight cyber-bullying.
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gtaUK
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3. March 2007 @ 10:24 |
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it's not so much the bandwidth that the school is worrying about because they have a pretty fast connection etc. it's just they don't want us to go on games in class and they especially don't want us using social websites such as bebo and myspace as they say "websites like them are full of sexual predators".
When i first came to the school there were only a few website blocked, you could practially go on anything and the interent was never shut off, so it was like this for th first 3 years i was there for and then all of a sudden myspace and bebo became popular and everyhting was blocked and then this year they added a program that allows no access to the internet unless a teacher turns it on. Can you tell me why is that, because of bandwidth problems?? It's become virtually impossible to surf the web when you actually get access to it even for our school work! our teachers turn on the internet and we look for the sites to get info from and most of them are blocked so they've successfully stop students going on unpermitted sites but now they can't do their work properly...
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3. March 2007 @ 10:31 |
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gtaUK
its called zero tolerance it tends to toss the baby out with the bath water,out local news radio bitch's about it most of the time thus is blocked that is blocked it all comes down from above,just because some CEO thinks its a waste of time to go onto the net and find NEWS you are reporting on or take a break and look at pron or some sht its just stupid,some restrictions are ok but this BS is over the top.
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SoulRhino
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3. March 2007 @ 12:22 |
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Im from australia, and this incident was more than bullying.
The 8 or so 17 yr old males in question filmed themselves setting fire to a homeless man.
then they called up a 15 yr old girl with a mental condition and used her as a toilet.
this was then uploaded to youtube
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3. March 2007 @ 13:23 |
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Oh hell, let's just get RID of all these computers and we can all go back to watching television, am I right, kids?
Bullying in a classroom has NOTHING to do with surfing the Internet. What planet am I on? This is nuts.
It's no wonder most people thinking computers are such a waste of time; they keep getting BLAMED for every possible social or moral problem acting on its inhabitants.
Oh, but wait, didn't we used to do that with televion? Oh. Yes. Never mind. I didn't say a word.
Grow up, teachers. If you truly having a problem with your students having minds of their own--and stop villifying amazing inclusive kinds of technology or websites, LIKE YOUTube, where you can communicate with any person on the planet--you need to take a real close look as to WHY you educate people at all. Yes?
Christ. This is ridiculous. Banning YOUTube because some asshole assaulted a female. Assault the asshole, not the community he lives in.
That's be like shutting down a town, because of a murderer.
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Grow up teachers??
comon it sounds like if somebody is stopying you from breathing, besides that, filtering the content surfed in a school maybe bad in the sense of zero tolerance, but lets just thank god you still can go out and access the internet anywhere else, is not like the school got the copyrights for it. I would say You Grow UP! So its Banned!, What are you going to do?? Besides Crying like a Baby? Take it like a man! lot of things are gonna be banned in youre life and sure just complainning wont change it, and as i said before is not like its your constitutional right to surf the web through any accesible internet access, Its the school access and theyre surely in control as far as to decide what you can access or not
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tutukaka
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3. March 2007 @ 15:58 |
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To canuckerz
and other illiterate morons out their in cyber-world... Was that English... What the hell did you say? Have you forgotten how to communicate? Obviously you've been fed a poor diet of You-Tube mush!
"Get a life" and I don't mean a virtual one - a real life! Who gives a damn about You-Tube? If blogs weren't bad enough - at least with blogs you need to use your brain to some extent - now people are spending endless hours looking at what someone else is doing in their bedroom or kitchen MUNDANE SHIT if you ask me... What a BORE! In the meantime your brains are turning into mush and you are devolving into a sub-human piece of flesh and fat who's whole purpose in life is to see what everyone else is doing with their useless lives. As evidenced by the dribble that was written by this "person" that was supposed to pass as communication in a language called English!
Give me a break cool dude because you watch You-Tube.
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3. March 2007 @ 20:02 |
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I'm another Australian, and this news report does not give much info of the situation. SoulRhino gave you a bit of an idea a few posts back on what really happened. Here's a fuller explanation.
A bunch of teenage boys sexually assaulted a teenage girl. They force her into sexual acts and then defecate on her. One of the assailants made a video of the assault which was shared between them and perhaps others. Somebody then put the video on YouTube.
There are two issues here. Firstly is the assault, which is a police matter.
Secondly is the intentional shaming of the victim by putting the video on YouTube. It is this second issue which constitutes the cyber-bullying that the original news report refers to.
This is not a case of "A kid gets bullied at school. I got bullied at school. Lots of kids get bullied at school. Get over it."
Nor is it a case of whether any particular school should or should not ban any or all internet sites.
This is a case of cutting off one avenue of bullying. Think of how easy it is for a student to take a cellphone movie in the classroom and put it on YouTube to shame another student or teacher. This is the type of bullying that the original report is getting at.
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4. March 2007 @ 13:13 |
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my old highschool blocks youtube because they have a 2/1 ratio of computers to student and if half the given students at any one time were all on youtube, wich is not totaly out of the question, then there wouldnt be enough bandwidth.
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patchted
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5. March 2007 @ 21:56 |
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Nowadays in the uk, schools ect are more worried about being sued or blamed if something goes wrong. It is eaiser to ban everything than be realistic and look at the problems, which is why snowball fights, conkers tag and internet are banned in certain schools
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13. June 2012 @ 05:30 |
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around the year 2000 when i was in school they went nuts with the computers.downloading was disabled,thousands of websites were blocked they even tryed to block us from opening up floppy drives and cds cause of the games we played on the computers. Porn was an instant suspension from school and students would say who gave them the pics in exchange for a lesser punishment.
as for cyber bullying what they wanna do is make it appear it doesnt exist.its like when i was in school you'd hear about drug busts in public schools and incidents in public schools but stabbing would happen in private schools,heroin busts would happen in private schools media would know nothing about it.
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