Life is grand

There are many benefits in working for a college. Good holidays, knowledge sharing, the range of people you meet, the facilities and a whopping big pipe to the internet.

One of the less beneficial features though is the Websense powered web filter. Because we “staff” are on the same network as the “students” we get the same filters. Much of the time the filtering doesn’t bother me as there are innumerable ways of getting around it when work requires I read up on a new hack to beef up our security etc.

But today I visited a sex education website and was blocked. Why on earth is a college blocking sex education sites? Shouldn’t we be encouraging our students to learn all they can about safe sex?

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