School Blockers

I think we all understand the need to keep the school network safe in order to keep our IT running. However, should it really be at the expence of OUR research? As we are constantly being told, we are young adults, we are gaing more and more responsibility and we have to act like mature adults. Some of us ARE adults and some of us work and make money.

As far as I'm concerned, were acting like adults and were having to behave like adults but were arent recieveing alot of benefits. College is not a legal requirement, were here of our own free will. We havent decided to take 2 years out of our lifes to look at fighting, swearing and porn. However funny it may seem, we can access these at home.

I believe some sites SHOULD be blocked and other SHOULD NOT. One of the sites i believe should be unblocked is youtube.com

When we are constructing one of our numerous powerpoint presenttations, we would like to include a link to a video that reflects out point or makes it.

There are so many blocked sites that it is becomming more difficult to conduct good research. We only really have access to one webiste. How can that be good research if it's just one source?
It can't be.

Finally, wikipedia.org is open to our use but it is in the public domain. Would you rather we went to a solid source of information that may contain banned key phrase such as "hacking", "weapons" or "violence" or would you rather we turn to Dave down the street who claims to know the ins an outs of World War II or Samantha, the 22 year old accounting assistant who believe she invented the internet?

In conclusion, I believe that we should not have COMPLETE access to the internet as, if we are being honest, SOME will abuse it. However, I believe that we should have MORE access to the internet. We are expected to act like adults but we do not recieve half the trust. I do not expect change, that would be foolish of me, however I do expect a certain degree of concideration.