Post by rmarks1 on Jun 20, 2014 15:03:58 GMT -5
Well, after all, we wouldn't want High school students exposed to "hate speech."
Bob
School Superintendent: Censorship Of Republicans, Vatican Fine If Not ‘PERVASIVE ENOUGH’
Earlier this week, The Daily Caller reported on a Connecticut high school senior who discovered that his taxpayer-funded school’s Internet firewall was censoring the state Republican Party, the National Rifle Association’s homepage, anti-abortion groups and even the Vatican.
The school district superintendent, Jody Ian Goeler, has now tried to explain himself. It’s not pretty.
“The district is trying to determine the reason for the inconsistency and if bias is pervasive enough to justify switching to another content filtering provider,” Goeler said, according to a press release obtained by TheDC.
This stance is a slight improvement from the superintendent’s previous position. The Nonnewaug High School senior, Andrew Lampart, said Goeler had previously informed him that some political sites and, apparently, the Vatican must be blocked to prevent “hate speech” from seeping into the school.
The controversy flared up after Lampart conducted research for an in-class debate on gun control. The NRA’s website was blocked, he said. However, a host of anti-gun sites remained easily accessible.
Lampart said he then expanded his search and found additional red flags. Connecticut’s Republican Party’s website was blocked, for example, while the state Democratic Party’s wasn’t. Pro-life groups like the National Right to Life were blocked, but not Planned Parenthood or NARAL Pro-Choice America. Even Christianity.com and the Vatican’s homepage fell on the wrong side of the digital barrier, though islam-guide.org and al-islam.org (both top Google search results for “Islam”) went unscathed.
news.yahoo.com/school-superintendent-censorship-republicans-vatican-fine-not-pervasive-155027113.html
Earlier this week, The Daily Caller reported on a Connecticut high school senior who discovered that his taxpayer-funded school’s Internet firewall was censoring the state Republican Party, the National Rifle Association’s homepage, anti-abortion groups and even the Vatican.
The school district superintendent, Jody Ian Goeler, has now tried to explain himself. It’s not pretty.
“The district is trying to determine the reason for the inconsistency and if bias is pervasive enough to justify switching to another content filtering provider,” Goeler said, according to a press release obtained by TheDC.
This stance is a slight improvement from the superintendent’s previous position. The Nonnewaug High School senior, Andrew Lampart, said Goeler had previously informed him that some political sites and, apparently, the Vatican must be blocked to prevent “hate speech” from seeping into the school.
The controversy flared up after Lampart conducted research for an in-class debate on gun control. The NRA’s website was blocked, he said. However, a host of anti-gun sites remained easily accessible.
Lampart said he then expanded his search and found additional red flags. Connecticut’s Republican Party’s website was blocked, for example, while the state Democratic Party’s wasn’t. Pro-life groups like the National Right to Life were blocked, but not Planned Parenthood or NARAL Pro-Choice America. Even Christianity.com and the Vatican’s homepage fell on the wrong side of the digital barrier, though islam-guide.org and al-islam.org (both top Google search results for “Islam”) went unscathed.
news.yahoo.com/school-superintendent-censorship-republicans-vatican-fine-not-pervasive-155027113.html
Bob
