Oh shit. Internet-censorship in Helsinki!

[nybergh]

Guess what happened in all the schools in Helsinki yesterday?`

The Helsinki Education Department have silently decided to start to control all outgoing http-traffic with a hair triggered censorship program on the proxy servers. That ist the most stupid thing I've ever seen.

The URLes get censored, meaning that all urls containing certain words cannot be displayed. An example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****%28computers%29
The most outrageous thing is that Helsinki is a bilangual city, both Finnish and Swedish are official languages here. The thing is that the word that is spelled S-E-X (sorry for that, i don't want to make this page impossible to open at school) in the swedish language (yes it's spelled exactly as in english) has two meanings: First it's what you think of first. The other meaning is SIX, 6, the freaking number!
There are other stupid examples of pages that can't be opened, that wikipedia article is maybe agood example.

There also is some kind of database of "bad" sites, not only those who use explicit words at the front page. For example www.googlism.com is filtered. But why the hell is not www.micetrap.net/ blocked then?

before we were able to download anything via http. things like kazaa and DC++ have been bloked for ages now, but I'm not complaing about that. Now we can't download exe's, dll's and zip's and mp3's! (these are only the file types I've noticed so far). This also makes sites like www.allmusic.com unusable as the site is bulit upon dll's. Just try to search on themain page of allmusic and you'll se that the URL refers to a dll. What kind of moralist degenerate lunatic hypocrite moronic incompetent it-staff agrees to put on these kind of restrictions? It's a well known fact that bureoucrats can decide anything, but I feel petty for the souls of tose poor bastard who had to install this crap and didn't stop this from being done!!

OK, my school is a upper secondary school and I'm seventeen years old! And they think I should sit behing the same filters as a seven-years-old? WTF?!
Actually, I can bypass this filter easily, becouse I'm in the administrator team and I'm one of those who's got full domain access. Internet Explorer seems to send the file rights to the proxy server and thus I'm able to surf freely. There are younger admins, they've got local admin rights, and for them this isa disaster! Can you figure out what it means to try to keep 70 machines in good condition as a team when half of the team members don't have http access to zip's and exe's!!!!

AND now I can't use firefox properly anymore. I shouldn't complain, I get unrestricted access with IE (we're ten students with full domain admin rights in our school, this is actually not allowed as a policy, but our school is a media school that needs to have the PC's in good condition all the time so it's an exeption. But I'm afraid that we're the only ten students in helsinki with these kind of rights) but when you've used firefox as a primary browser for 1 year I can tellyou that it feels like shit to switch back to IE.

Have you experienced shit like this. I can't remember being as pissed of as I was in about 12 hours yesterday.

Check the attachment, this is how the blocking looks like. The notification is in Finnnish,but you can feel the evil wibe of it, right? The notification tells the user to contact the administrator of the school ifthe notification is wrong. WTF! Most schools have circulating admins that are responsible for even five schools in a region. They appear to every school like once a month! How the hell could they do anything about this? Mostly they're fifty years old jerks with an incompetence that is ounbearable! Did you know that some schools in helsinki still force their students to use Netscape 4 from 1998?!

(hey, mods, move this thread to the Bitchlist if you think it's necessary)