Sasha
30th March 2011, 12:44
since we have an lot of US school going members and the issue of webfilters came up before this might be of interest to you...
Don't Filter Me (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/03/29/dont-filter-me)
Posted by Dan Savage (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ArticleArchives?author=259) on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM
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Say you're a gay kid and you get online at school—let's say you're looking for LGBT scholarships to help pay for your education because your parents cut you off when you came out—so you get online at school and start Googling around. You quickly discover that every LGBT organization's website is blocked. HRC is blocked, NGLTF, GLSEN, Trevor, It Gets Better, all the gay blogs, every gay publication, and every gay organization that offers scholarships to LGBT students. All blocked. But no anti-gay websites are blocked. PFOX, American Family Association, Exodus International, reparative therapists—every last anti-gay website, the website of every last officially certified anti-gay hate organization, is unblocked.
That's a very specific kind of cyberbullying. It's also a discriminatory and unconstitutional. And if your school is blocking pro-gay websites, the ACLU wants to hear from you (https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DontFilterMe&JServSessionIdr004=ogwk4j59b2.app220a).
Don't Filter Me (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/03/29/dont-filter-me)
Posted by Dan Savage (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ArticleArchives?author=259) on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM
MHM3AiK2fwA
Say you're a gay kid and you get online at school—let's say you're looking for LGBT scholarships to help pay for your education because your parents cut you off when you came out—so you get online at school and start Googling around. You quickly discover that every LGBT organization's website is blocked. HRC is blocked, NGLTF, GLSEN, Trevor, It Gets Better, all the gay blogs, every gay publication, and every gay organization that offers scholarships to LGBT students. All blocked. But no anti-gay websites are blocked. PFOX, American Family Association, Exodus International, reparative therapists—every last anti-gay website, the website of every last officially certified anti-gay hate organization, is unblocked.
That's a very specific kind of cyberbullying. It's also a discriminatory and unconstitutional. And if your school is blocking pro-gay websites, the ACLU wants to hear from you (https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DontFilterMe&JServSessionIdr004=ogwk4j59b2.app220a).