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Schools use web filters to limit what students can see online.
Originally intended to block obscene content, they now prevent students from learning. Students explain, in their own words: https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/five-high-schoolers-explain-how-web-filters-inhibit-their-learning-and-safety
I am a #Remote #volunteer #HighSchool #ComputerScience #teacher. I have volunteered in several #US states. And it's been my experience that schools don't have a #BlockList; they have an #AllowList.
This should not surprise anyone. There is not an inclusive list of all age-inapproprate sites on the internet. It's orders of magnitude easier to only allow sites that faculty specifically request.
My experience as a parent backs this up. When our kids were teenagers, my ex tried to filter the internet. The teens started using the neighbors' wifi.
@themarkup that's why even back when I was in school everyone who wasn't #TechIlliterate booted into #Tails or some other #Linux and thus trivially circumvented any #CintentFiltering!
@kkarhan @themarkup
That’s great, but vulnerable kids who need online community and resources may not be tech literate for all sorts of reasons — and shouldn’t just be abandoned because of it.
@EFA @themarkup OFC not.
- In fact, I blame #schools for this hamfisted approach, as the correct way to deal with kids doing unwanted stuff is having some serious talk, teching them proper #TechLiteracy and not using #Filtering garbage that has no legitimate reason to exist in the first place...
@kkarhan @themarkup
But there are so many moral panics, and there is so little time and reaources…
@EFA @themarkup #Prohibition doesn't fix shit - even if it may be warranted...
The problem is that #DecisionMakers and mostly #Parents as well as #Techers are the biggest #TechIlliterates I've met.
They didn't and still don't know shit about stuff and constantly insulted the intellect of anyone more clever than #Zensursula...