▲ 406 ▼ Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (themarkup.org) submitted 2 years ago* by jeffw@lemmy.world [M] to c/news@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Other notorious sites blocked under Education: merriam-webster.com loc.gov (Library of Congress) unf.edu (University of Florida) oceanservice.noaa.gov duckduckgo.com permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) New question, why is duckduckgo in the education category? Are all search engines? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago That's a great question and I wish I knew the answer to. Apparently, only DDG got blocked as Education/Science, Startpage was blocked as security.proxy, Bing for no specific reason and several Google variations (.ca, .nl, fr, etc) blocked as "App Defender". The more I look into it, the more I'm left wondering who the fuck created the blocklists. The Social Media category has several instances of sites that are anything but any form of social media or social network permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) New question, why is duckduckgo in the education category? Are all search engines? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago That's a great question and I wish I knew the answer to. Apparently, only DDG got blocked as Education/Science, Startpage was blocked as security.proxy, Bing for no specific reason and several Google variations (.ca, .nl, fr, etc) blocked as "App Defender". The more I look into it, the more I'm left wondering who the fuck created the blocklists. The Social Media category has several instances of sites that are anything but any form of social media or social network permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago That's a great question and I wish I knew the answer to. Apparently, only DDG got blocked as Education/Science, Startpage was blocked as security.proxy, Bing for no specific reason and several Google variations (.ca, .nl, fr, etc) blocked as "App Defender". The more I look into it, the more I'm left wondering who the fuck created the blocklists. The Social Media category has several instances of sites that are anything but any form of social media or social network permalink fedilink source parent