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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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Attin
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1. March 2007 @ 10:44 |
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theyl just go upload those videos somewhere else...
and lol "cyber bullying"
*cutting hes wrists*
OMG there are vidoes out in t3h internets !!!
rofl
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sinners
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1. March 2007 @ 11:01 |
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Unfortunatley, I don't think you know how horrible those events were back then. I lived very close to the incident when it happend and it was just plain sad what happen, its just not some "Cyber-Bullying".
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1. March 2007 @ 11:04 |
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This is a really big matter in Australia not just in Melbourne. Banning it in schools is one way of just taking the bullying outside of school walls. What needs to be implemented is strategies to teach young people how to deal with bullying of all types.
Also strategies have to be put in place to help the bully understand he/she actions and also when a bully lashes out in most cases its a cry for attention due to not getting any attention at home or he/she could have an abusive situation at home and decides to deal with it that way. We need to ban but also implement anti bullying programs. Like peer support back into schools.
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1. March 2007 @ 11:07 |
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sinners
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1. March 2007 @ 11:12 |
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Hehehe Proxies are banned too or don't work correctly ;) But I can still access Youtube.com
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1. March 2007 @ 15:01 |
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They aleddy got it blocked completely here in atlantic Canada. For like a year and a half now. no way around the stupid filter even with pings proxies or anything, its one thurough pain in the ass.
I really dont find this surprising, cyber bullying isnt probably the real issue besides them wanting to make headlines, they most likely got rid of it cause of bandwidth. Thats what they did here atleast. LOL i still lag the stupid school server playing 16 person lan halo demo on good'ol blood gultch.
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1. March 2007 @ 17:24 |
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It doesn't sound bad when you call it Cyber-bullying; what that situation sounded like it was on a way higher criminal scale than "bullying." But considering that school is meant for learning, and that if there's a bandwidth problem, then it would seem appropriate to that extent.
Originally posted by canuckerz:
...LOL i still lag the stupid school server playing 16 person lan halo demo on good'ol blood gultch.
Hehe, I used to do that in my Tech Support class during my last year in High school, but I don't think it caused much bandwidth usage cuz we were on a hub. Fun times :P
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1. March 2007 @ 17:51 |
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Depending how good their filters are the students would obviously just use a program or online proxy to get to it, the school wouldn't be able to ban all anonymous proxy sites.
But videos like that, especially the attack on a girl definitely shouldn't be seen by kids, or anyone for that matter.
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1. March 2007 @ 18:39 |
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Hell Im a school teacher and im shure as heck youtube has allways been banned in my classroom, since day one i started working in the school the first three things i did was
banned Messenger
Banned Youtube
and Banned Myspace
its all been good since then
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1. March 2007 @ 18:49 |
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Shouldn't they be glad he was dumb enough to post a video of him 'bullying' someone? Sounds like pretty good evidence to use against him to me...
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Attin
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2. March 2007 @ 06:14 |
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Originally posted by Gradical:
Hell Im a school teacher and im shure as heck youtube has allways been banned in my classroom, since day one i started working in the school the first three things i did was
banned Messenger
Banned Youtube
and Banned Myspace
its all been good since then
:D
ummm... You are a very bad person >:(
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2. March 2007 @ 09:24 |
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I'm not saying it's good that it happened, but the bullying probably would have occured regardless of youtube.
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2. March 2007 @ 09:38 |
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Bully's need to get their asses kicked and see how they like it.
Originally posted by borhan9:
This is a really big matter in Australia not just in Melbourne. Banning it in schools is one way of just taking the bullying outside of school walls. What needs to be implemented is strategies to teach young people how to deal with bullying of all types.
Also strategies have to be put in place to help the bully understand he/she actions and also when a bully lashes out in most cases its a cry for attention due to not getting any attention at home or he/she could have an abusive situation at home and decides to deal with it that way. We need to ban but also implement anti bullying programs. Like peer support back into schools.
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2. March 2007 @ 12:55 |
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why? there are plenty of vids on the site classes can discuses and elarn from,this is just stupid reaction from a anal goverment/system.
borhan9
same in the US they would rather ban media,thinking,video games,moives,music,myspace and youtube then sit down and create a system where kids can report abuse and something is done about it...
I was bullied/abused in the late 80s when kids where kids and chased other kids across traffic and into garages and hit them with hammers >>
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3. March 2007 @ 04:27 |
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ha they've only just banned this, in the uk they ban everything in school, about the only website you can go on is news websites and educational website and must of google is blocked and first off we can't surf the internet unless a teacher turns on the internet for each computer so we are completly shut off from the internet in school
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3. March 2007 @ 05:09 |
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Originally posted by gtaUK:
ha they've only just banned this, in the uk they ban everything in school, about the only website you can go on is news websites and educational website and must of google is blocked and first off we can't surf the internet unless a teacher turns on the internet for each computer so we are completly shut off from the internet in school
funny since anythign can fall under the guise of "educational".
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3. March 2007 @ 05:13 |
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Originally posted by gtaUK:
ha they've only just banned this, in the uk they ban everything in school, about the only website you can go on is news websites and educational website and must of google is blocked and first off we can't surf the internet unless a teacher turns on the internet for each computer so we are completly shut off from the internet in school
funny since anythign can fall under the guise of "educational".
ha you have a point there
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3. March 2007 @ 05:24 |
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the problem with these zero tolerance filters a teacher can not take the class where they need to go on the net.
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3. March 2007 @ 06:47 |
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Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:
gtaUK
the problem with these zero tolerance filters a teacher can not take the class where they need to go on the net.
yes i know that but come on turning the internet off alltogether seems a little extreme especially seeing as nearly every website on the net is blocked anyway and students actually being told by it teachers and the it technicans that if you go on any website that isn't permited in school such as youtube or bebo and proxy's to get to them then your account will be deleted and you will be suspended from school! yes you heard me! our school will suspend us if we go on any unpermited sites. Don't you think that is extreme
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3. March 2007 @ 07:08 |
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a little extreme?? Im sorry youre saying it like it was your constitutional right of freedom of websurfing, besides as the side of the teacher i could tell you, is not that i dont want to protect nobody to watch any inapropiate things in school, is just that im sure you can watch them at the commfort of your own house/kinkos, and not while youre in my classroom when you are supposed to be studying
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3. March 2007 @ 07:59 |
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Originally posted by Gradical:
a little extreme?? Im sorry youre saying it like it was your constitutional right of freedom of websurfing, besides as the side of the teacher i could tell you, is not that i dont want to protect nobody to watch any inapropiate things in school, is just that im sure you can watch them at the commfort of your own house/kinkos, and not while youre in my classroom when you are supposed to be studying
it is and it is not ti should be up the teacher to detreman what web page the class goes to,and when a teacher is not around the net is fully locked down and off.
if a home class needs parts of the net for surfing and data gathering then it can be filtered ,all I am saying its better than the BS they are doing because they would rather blame the net then do anything to fix the problems at hand.
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3. March 2007 @ 09:37 |
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i do know that you are suppsoe to be working, but what if you have free time and at lunch you can't do anything, so much for a technology college if you can't use the technology
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3. March 2007 @ 09:43 |
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Originally posted by gtaUK:
i do know that you are suppsoe to be working, but what if you have free time and at lunch you can't do anything, so much for a technology college if you can't use the technology
the filters at work and in collages are pointless...its tell adults how to behave and think..its rather sad....
for 5-11th grade they need some supervision.
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3. March 2007 @ 09:46 |
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Originally posted by gtaUK:
i do know that you are suppsoe to be working, but what if you have free time and at lunch you can't do anything, so much for a technology college if you can't use the technology
the filters at work and in collages are pointless...its tell adults how to behave and think..its rather sad....
for 5-11th grade they need some supervision.
only because they go on games not porn sites, no one goes on them
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3. March 2007 @ 09:53 |
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I know why you think theyre pointless
first of all you dont have to clean All de Spyware, Malware , Trojans that the computers get every time you go onto freegames.com or whatever cheesy webpage one can think of to get free sh17 that is one
Second of all sure everyone likes to complaint of how slow the internet connection is in every classroom, yet everyone wants to hog the bandwith it has way to many complications
and besides that you shoul always remember that the priority of this places is to give acces to knowledge that is usefull for curricular development, so if you watching a beatboxing freak makes the access to legitimate knowledge that is curricular to other students impossible because of the bandwith you´re using then its more than usefull to have this filters
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