Comments on: What Parental Control Programs Block

By: black4ty

black4ty — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:06:56 +0000

That was an epic bump.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:25:59 +0000

I went to a Catholic high school (unfortunately) and I was doing research for a project for religion class (again, unfortunately), and my school had half of the RELIGIOUS sites blocked, specifically CATHOLIC sites! It’s like are you kidding me?
Thankfully, the entire PopHangover network was left unblocked by my school (then again, I don’t think they were cool enough to know it existed).

By: c

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:25 +0000

I had an art class in high school with a project in which we had to research a modern artist. My friend was researching Chip Foose’s art (draws cars) and everthing was getting blocked. I was researching an artist who is also a popular musician and most of the pages that came up in the google search were random fan blogs saying stuff like “I want to f***…” and none of those were blocked.

By: Potato in Flight

Potato in Flight — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:24:45 +0000

This reminds me of a few parental control programs there used to be on my computer when I was young.

The first blocked most, if not all, of the children’s websites on the internet like cartoonnetwork.com. But it didn’t block adult sites. I guess the function it served was to prevent parents from accessing their child’s favorite website instead of their favorite porn site.

The second went crazy. It initially worked fine, but eventually it ended up blocking every single site on the internet. Except maybe something.com.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:21:37 +0000

They have a blocked category for education? Seriously? What the hell is with that?

By: true?

true? — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:46:09 +0000

the one called wpcumi.exe?

By: Proxy?

Proxy? — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:41:01 +0000

if you need a proxy server try hidemyass [dot] com . i dont know how filters work in your country but i’m fairly sure its impossibe to block a proxy site

By: Mahpka

Mahpka — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:16:31 +0000

Ugh. Not if you’re taking an info tech class. Our teacher REQUIRES web addresses when we site research. But that could also be because she’s crazy.

By: Spen B

Spen B — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:06:15 +0000

I’ve done it. You just kill the process in the Task Manager

By: williamswitch

williamswitch — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:41:24 +0000

Thats alright for some subjects but when the school reference books haven’t been updated since the 60′s and your teacher wants a paper with up to date facts it different.

By: Me

Me — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:28:29 +0000

powder white!

By: Wpheloung12

Wpheloung12 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:06:40 +0000

yo i made a new graph:
http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=4574039

By: Logan-Rose

Logan-Rose — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:09:00 +0000

I can’t access half the sites I want to use for art assignments because some pages on the sites (not even the pages I’m using) refer to the works being about sex, violence, drugs, etc.

By: Wpheloung12

Wpheloung12 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:23:24 +0000

*school’s

By: Wpheloung12

Wpheloung12 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:22:44 +0000

Do they block wikipedia/encyclopedia brittanica, or your schools website

By: Wpheloung12

Wpheloung12 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:21:29 +0000

It blocks encyclopedia brittanica, but not playboy.com

By: Zearen

Zearen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:31:09 +0000

Sigh…

Above comment translated:
“Hahaha, this guy sounds like he actually put effort into life. What a loser. When I get older, I’m going to be so cool everyone will simply ignore my horible notes.”

By: armanrules

armanrules — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:13:22 +0000

im so glad i can hack and disable parental controls

By: Fredthelog

Fredthelog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:13:56 +0000

lmao, nerd

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:23:45 +0000

ya i kno whenever my class goes to the computers the teacher leaves and half the class tries to go to game sites and thoes sites are blocked but the other half of the class is looking up porn and no block lol

By: さむへばりい

さむへばりい — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:51:59 +0000

Yea… Is it SonicWall? Our school uses everything on the block list besides childrens sites. Half of the internet is blocked under “Forbidden Category: Unrated” (this includes various research and personal websites). The rest is blocked under various other categories, including
Education,
Sex Ed,
Pornography,
Games,
Religion,
Adult/Mature Content,
Cult/Occult,
Drugs/Alcohol/Tabacco,
Criminal and Illegal Skills,
Hacking and Proxy Avoidance (Including ALL of WikiHow)
Intamite Apparel/Swimsuits,
Violence/Hate/Racism,
MP3/Streaming
Administrative Custom Settings list
Arts/Entertainment (WebComics and the like)
Auctions
Shopping
Vehicles
Food/Dining
Brokerage/Trading
Economy/Buisness
Chat/IM
Cultural Institutions
Email
Search Engines and Portals (We have to enter each URL by hand, Google is dangerous!)
And soon to contain…

“Forbidden Category: The Internet”

All in all, about 95% of the internet is blocked.

By: thegunsofbrixton

thegunsofbrixton — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:36:17 +0000

they need to add a third category: everything else!

By: liloaktree

liloaktree — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:08:58 +0000

Better as a Venn diagram? Valid point, but *also* parental controls don’t successfully block teh pr0n.

By: Mariachi

Mariachi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:41:32 +0000

I was doing a report on the Mars rover back in the day when people still gave a damn about it and the search engine blocked my search for “Mars explorer” because all it saw was marSEXplorer

By: winternets

winternets — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:17:04 +0000

Lucky you, then.

By: Wpheloung12

Wpheloung12 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:31:55 +0000

I’m glad everyone likes my graph

By: Outback Jon

Outback Jon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:17:37 +0000

But what if you’re researching porn?

By: Gio

Gio — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:09:26 +0000

You obviously don’t know just how much porn is out there, my friend. If you’re referring to how much porn you’ve tried to look at that was blocked as opposed to research sites, that I’ll buy, but there is a much larger number of porn sites than there is of any site worth doing research on.

By: puffin

puffin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:27:47 +0000

Oh, I Know. I was researching a project on medieval castles, and it was blocking some sites with pictures of “dangerous weapons” a.k.a really old swords.

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:01:13 +0000

Amen! Our high school’s filter was terrible. It blocked Wikipedia, every single site on gardening (catagory: drugs), it even blocked sections of college’s websites! It was stupid.

By: shophia

shophia — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:18:18 +0000

you spend SOOOO much time on this website it is unbelievable

By: shophia

shophia — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:17:12 +0000

you spend SOOO much time on this..wow

By: ZORG

ZORG — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:08:56 +0000

how true it is

By: ...

... — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:40:57 +0000

Back in the day when I was in school (2 years ago), I would go to the library and find some books on the subject I was researching.

That school also has an honor code that didn’t allow me to copy/paste from Wikipedia.

This “need” to go on these “Research sites” is all in your head.

By: HistoryMaker

HistoryMaker — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:28:30 +0000

What class is the research for?

By: James the Conquerer

James the Conquerer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:23:13 +0000

Everyone should do plenty of research on cherry-popping.

By: jzimbert

jzimbert — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:22:24 +0000

Maybe you shouldn’t write school reports about pooping catgirls.

By: UBERGRUE

UBERGRUE — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:21:35 +0000

It’s the same at schools…

By: PunditKitteh

PunditKitteh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:11:12 +0000

“research”… sure, I believe you.

By: boon

boon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:08:25 +0000

But wait, Isn’t that a good thing?
Who needs research sites anyway?
Intarnets is for teh pr0n!

By: h.w.

h.w. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:07:40 +0000

It’s filtering software parents can put in place to supposedly block their kids from accessing pornography. It doesn’t work very well.

By: tr069

tr069 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:06:21 +0000

or is there…whatever

Like we say here: “não interessa!”

By: tr069

tr069 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:03:47 +0000

???

there’s no such thing in Portugal