wcnews blocked at my school :(

Private_Maestro

Private_Maestro

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wcnews.com is blocked at my school

it's very unfair

just thought i'd say, so everyone who can access it feels good about themselves ~~~ :P

fucking love this website!! :D
 
Is it actually on some specific list of unwholesome sites that need to be blocked??? The CIC's reputation must be spreading faster than I imagined. :D
 
That's too bad. What kind of a message are you getting? It's possible that it's something we did accidentally.
 
Blocked?
Oh that is not good...although I thought that most schools would block sites which consider "inappropiate sites"
ie adult porn sites
Entertainment sites ie movie releases, game-network info sites I would have thought would be consider ok...but then it would be different from place to place
 
QuailPilot said:
Maybe they block because of this?
Click to expand...

~~~ sorry QuailPilot. I was at home, I don't swear at school :rolleyes:

I think it's blocked under the games category, such as an online arcade even though it's a news site....

Google-translate and all other proxies don't work, but crius isn't blocked luckily!
 
Yeah, my school's security software (Websense) allows me to go to this site but says that the category 'Games' is restricted. Maybe if you found someway so that the software wouldn't see that category, then it would work.
 
haha yeah i kinda guessed, at least we both understand sarcasm :p

I don't think there's anything that wcnews can take off the site to remove them from 'online games' lists... The companies probably have lists of websites they believe go into that category and also admins at colleges and schools can manually add their own additions, hence wcnews :(
 
Well, that's too bad. If there's some kind of school administrator you'd like me to e-mail, I can give it a shot.
 
When I was in high school, they blocked many sites, among them news sites, like ABC News. However, there way ways around it.
 
From what I remember (from way back in high school) the local Board of Education licensees out web-filtering software to help block sites.

The company that makes the software (in my case it was Websense) complies a list of all the sites they can and categories them.

Then someone at the BoE (probably the Superintendent) orders certain categories to be blocked (Porn, Video Games, Extremest, P2P, etc.). So when they blocked Game sites (probably to prevent people from playing flash and shockwave type games) they also blocked sites that just give information about video-games (gamespot.com, wcnews.com, ign.com, etc.)

They can whitelist sites, but they usualy don't listen to students and its nearly impossible to get a teacher or administration to put in a request for a game site.

However, you can set up a proxy using your home computer. Just go to http://peacefire.org/ to find out how (it can even bypass China's firewall, so I doubt you're local town's BoE would pose a challenge).
 
I got banned from the computer clusters at school too; buying airsoft weapons wasn't considered 'educational' for some reason...!
 
Try TOR. You can add it as a firefox extension.

If you want to try, make your own proxy on your home computer running squid. Configure it to use a high port, and then configure your browser at school to push the traffic through.

I know this works, because that's how I access most of my web stuff at work


http://www.squid-cache.org/
 
Thanks LOAF but the school would probably be annoyed that I've even been going on websites like CIC :rolleyes: my free time isn't really "mine" if it's controlled but yeh..

~~~ buying airsoft weapons i see how they might have restricted that :P

TOR doesn't work for me, as for setting up my own proxy it would probably be going to too much effort for just at school - maybe more useful for people who have to work or live in countries with restrictions.

I was wondering does the CIC have a I.P. type address, as in a number address I can type in the browser and it takes me to the site, as that won't be blocked and won't look suspicious :)
 
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