Dumbest Things Blocked on School Computers

[@blapii]

Man I remember looking up successful and the page was blocked. Realized it was because of “succ”

[@50LRXX]

This is making me realize my school is not that strict.

[@Vevular]

LMAO???

[@SMPandanic]

... but why the incorrect spelling of it?

[@theofficialgamerman]

Matthew i know you have seen this comment soooo i would like to say i am dissatisfied with your lack of “awesome sauce” verbalized in this video 😢 😢 😢

[@wweeeee]

Damn

[@verylostdoommarauder]

The only outlandish thing that my schools IT security has done was repeatedly banning the videos that my French teacher was planning to use.

[@thedarter]

Doing his duty to protect the children from the Fr*nch.

[@cloud_congestus]

i think someone in your school's IT security has something against your French teacher-

[@ZoeFlowerson]

Not the French! Too dangerous for school

[@teathesilkwing7616]

That’s reasonable and something that should be implemented worldwide, we have to stop the French

[@BM9K1]

@@thedarter LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@PsychoSavager289]

In the early 2000s, my school attempted to implement a very rudimentary learning algorithm in their website blocking program. Obviously the word "porn" was blocked, but if you typed "hardcore porn" it would then add "hardcore" to its list of banned words. The problem was this spiralled out of control very quickly, as "hardcore science" would then block the word "science", then "high school science" would then block the words "high" and "school". Needless to say, this algorithm had to be removed after just a few hours.

[@seantaggart7382]

Ida: OOPS! Ai went badly

[@asterglaceon]

That is the stupidest possible algorithm I’ve ever heard of, I legitimately want to know why the developers of it even slightly thought that would work, even if they had .003% of a brain cell, a troglodyte would know that wouldn’t work

[@DeathnoteBB]

That’s hilarious

[@Uhhhi-ih8bb]

I love ingenious hackers

[@SilverAceOfSpades]

"hardcore porn" "minecraft hardcore mode" "mean median and mode" "kids at school are being mean to me" "how to tell if you're failing in school" Now you can barely search anything.

[@peteryeeterson5766]

My school blocked the word “fail” because kids were looking up fail compilations, which seems fine and dandy until you realize that around 50% of the questions you’d look up in history class use it.

[@LavroseRovender]

Wdym

[@PinkLemonadeRat]

am I the only one who doesn’t get the realize…whatever we’re supposed to realize here?

[@folddyy]

​@@PinkLemonadeRatyou're not the only one who doesn't get it

[@useless8695]

@@PinkLemonadeRat *fail* complications (not school related) why did the match girls protest *fail* (history related)

[@PinkLemonadeRat]

@@useless8695 ohhh that makes a lot more sense lol

[@zombiexbarbie1256]

My school blocked the term “Mona Lisa,” because it had Mona in it, so when I was doing my Leonardo da Vinci project, I always had to spell it like “Mon Lisa.” 💀

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Jamaican Mona Lisa.

[@EricChiEric]

What's wrong with the word Mona?

[@AmythestAnimations]

@@EricChiEric spelled like moan is my guess

[@JulienKline-nz3mp]

HUMAN HEAD BONE EMOJI

[@simonteesdale9752]

I had the inverse of this, where one of the teachers attempted to demonstrate a blocked site by visiting Playboy's website, and found out in front of the class that it _wasn't_ blocked.

[@slycooper1001]

this reminds me of the time i was looking up how to build jet-packs/fan-packs and in the recommended advertisement's was websites for the purchase of sex toys it was kinda funny as i myself wasn't googling it and instead it was a helpful teacher that was interested in what i wanted to look up i don't know any other facts about it but i guess someone looked up that topic before and then forgot to clear the cache and then the computer went oh you were looking up nsfw stuff earlier are you still interested? this was back in 2007 i think? and both myself and the teacher both knew i was not looking up that kinda stuff before hand so we kinda laughed it off and i stuck it in the back of my mind i was the one to point the ads out and we both knew someone else had done this as she woke the computer up but i was like 12 and i knew it was nsfw and went if i wanted to look this up i'd use my own personal laptop and not use a unsafe school computer that would certainly be able to pinpoint the exact moment someone typed that in or at least someone searching it

[@ariannasv22]

How many kids went to promptly look it up on their own devices

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

that happened to me too!! from what i know she had to change jobs after that

[@pyorodabird]

nakey nakey!

[@escape209]

A guy in my class literally opened (until a couple images began popping in) a "very bad website with kids wearing ill fitting clothing" (I guess to be edgy or something) in a full room. Not blocked, was on the regular internet. Was a lucky bastard for the teacher and everyone else to not see it. Years later, I just wonder how and WHY the hell he found out about that site.

[@Mags_Ty]

My elementary school blocked the Google Snake game off all computers because there was a group of boys who would play it in class instead of doing work. However, because the snake game is built into Google itself, the school had to use an old version of Google instead. This version sucked. It barely worked most of the time and when it did work, it was slow and wouldn't load correctly. They couldn't change browsers because the whole online part of that school ran out of Google. Google Docs, Gmail, Google Classroom, etc. So everyone had to suffer this old, awful Google. The best part? The boys still found a way to play Google Snake so the entire change was for nothing.

[@dryjones9715]

Okay, that was worth the read.

[@chairger]

honestly google is so based for literally having built in games on the browser

[@sylvanticx]

Yeah my school doesn’t like people being able to play Google Solitaire or Snake or Pac-Man, but they can’t stop it for that reason.

[@NolanHOfficial]

This story is better then 90% of other stories 💀😭

[@Noteturtle90]

We usually have dance with a cover teacher (substitute teacher for yall who call it that) on the computers, so people just play those games instead of working and get confused if the teacher tells them to work. If it's a good cover teacher they won't even care. Popular games include snake and flappy crus, that shitty game where you just murder flappy birds with the space bar as more and more blood splatters on the teeth of the pipe crushing them.

[@miss.dazzle.05]

My school blocked Skyward and Canvas for a period of time. For those who don’t know, Skyward is where we check our grades and Canvas is where I am required to turn in 99.73% of my assignments.

[@Qwozocube]

Our school accidentally blocked Skyward and Apex Learning for 3 HOURS before fixing it, and announcing that they messed up. Fun day that was. If you don't know, Apex Learning is the site that they have us do credit recovery work on.

[@Icedgamer5657]

I got canvas too

[@Kevinbarnaclejones.]

I got canvas too

[@imstilllandon2922]

I got canvas too

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

I hate canvas

[@Jsbehsi9]

My school blocks Club Penguin private servers, literal school websites, and yet they don't block porn.

[@Evoimations]

R.I.P Club Penguin

[@ccp9922]

My school got a new filter which automatically blocks websites from other countries, this is a problem when you’re trying to do research on France and the website is blocked because it’s “categorized as France”

[@Skullair313]

We need to protect our children from being exposed to France

[@thesplatooanima8231]

Wow.... they're another level of people that say "fr*nce, fr*nch"......

[@SgtRamen69]

Never trust the French

[@amogu_]

that's the only one that's justified

[@lololollololol629]

Do you go to a school in china? lol

[@kelsiedotfla]

the dinosaur game being blocked is more common than you think it is. the nyc department of education is so strict it won't let any public school in nyc play the dinosaur game (let alone any school, including private ones), it won't let you view a google doc outside of your school's email, and it won't let you change your profile picture

[@kelsiedotfla]

forgot to mention! they blocked youtube too but not any other sns website

[@wildintrovert7957]

So that's probably why we were blocked from changing our pfps after like 6-7th grade. I always thought someone just royally screwed up

[@kelsiedotfla]

forgot to mention! again! my old middle school blocked gmail for a while because we kept checking it in class

[@strebersleftforearm]

streber pfper also your schools sound like shit 😭

[@hamburger7243]

Mine does the same exact thing!

[@name_unbekannt9976]

Probably no one is going to read this because I'm way too late, but I went to a really expensive private boarding school last year and their wifi literally had almost nothing blocked. I could access a bunch of pirating websites, porn websites, I was literally actively searching for things they might have blocked but couldn't find any. Then, about 2 months after school begin I randomly got the urge to play around with the Akinator... THE AKINATOR WAS THE ONLY THING BLOCKED IN THE DAMN SCHOOL WIFI 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@TheOriginalMacOS]

i read it

[@Chib9]

The school fucking hates Akinator

[@Cheezbuckets]

Okay, for people who didn’t go through an edgy “play the games on the PETA website” phase, let me tell you, the PETA website is absolutely blocked for a reason! My home computer had an army of parental blocks, and when my mom saw me playing the “children’s” games on that site, she was *horrified* because those cute cartoon games are nothing but gore! Calling the PETA website “mature” is more than fair lmao

[@kaydwessie296]

Yeah this was the only justified one

[@dadfixthis2998]

​@@kaydwessie296Actually, in the context of school, blocking websites that exist mainly for entertainment (i.e: Coolmath Games) is actually quite logical. Gotta make sure the students pay attention to the class!

[@IDontReallyWantAYoutubeHandle]

I remember those!!! Saw KZbinrs play it instead of actually playing it myself but I always thought they were really edgy fan games. Did not make me vegan though, so I win aha

[@reeses_unicorn]

Sounds like they'd be similar to Happy Tree Friends. 😂

[@demo2823]

​​​@@dadfixthis2998My school's computer class existed solely to get kids comfortable with using computers. Many of us came from impoverished households without home computers (this was before smartphones, too). Once the teacher made sure we all knew how to power it on, move the mouse and double click, that was all and we were left to our own devices, no class to pay attention to. Games on computers play a huge role in getting kids comfortable and familiar with using them. My teachers installed several games on the computer for that purpose. They didn't mind us being on flash game websites either. But whenever a specific website became popular, the teachers freaked out about 'mass minded thinking' and banned it. The same way they banned physicsl trends like playing spinning tops, too.

[@oujiis]

School blocked everything related to gambling, including "lottery," "poker," "luck," "chance," and "gamble." I was in AP Statistics. I was miserable

[@babypiratesnapchat2]

No gambling. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

[@americastuff5147]

I remember some stupid glitch happened on my Chromebook and things look Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Classroom were categorized as “Drug Abuse”

[@finleysgaming4076]

Funny that Gamble was blocked cuz I and Gambling both have “Gambl” in it

[@TheOne_6]

OH NO! sorry for you

[@msmaiaanimatez-UTTD-]

Imagine trying to search “Chance” for a math question or something 💀

[@Thefrogbread]

My school blocked almost everything, even their own website. However, they did not block Pizza Hut. A bunch of kids ordered pizzas to the school

[@sylvanticx]

At a school I went to they had to send out an announcement that ordering pizza for class parties during finals week was not allowed. Really sad, too, because it was banned right before my class where I was going to have a party involving snacks (many classes had already taken their finals before their official final test time slot, so many people were left with hours of doing nothing)

[@velocityraptor2890]

i would probably do the exact same thing

[@SkeletonLand368]

Me: Uh, hi, um… can I get.. 100000000000 boxes of pizza? Any type of pizza. Delivery location? [Blocked off for school privacy reasons]. Ok, thanks!

[@Thefrogbread]

@@SkeletonLand368 basically that

[@Twinklethefox9022]

I never tried doing that so I dunno what the school's policy was on that.

[@ryoumensan]

my school blocks all fanfiction websites and quora but you are perfectly able to go on anime piracy websites

[@rockercaterrorencountered4924]

I was cyber schooled up until high school and my parents put a ton of child protective locks on the school laptops we were given. The web browser lock had such amazing blocks as keeping me from viewing lace fabric because the word "lace" is "sexually explicit" and blocking my sibling from visiting the site "guitars exchange" because it has the word "sex" in it. My mom recently said, sincerely and with deep regret, that she hadn't blocked enough on our computers as kids and that's why we turned out the way we did. Much to both of our dismay, I laughed in her face before I realized she was being serious. edit: I forgot my high school also banned all social media on their wifi. By the end of the day almost everyone had a VPN on their phone and was using social media as normal. Some people also used VPNs to watch porn in class. Weird times.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

Your mum is an idiot.

[@gingersolacemusic7590]

Can't be looking at all that guitar sex change stuff

[@Benw8888]

@@gingersolacemusic7590 underrated

[@DeathnoteBB]

“If only I’d been more abusive!” is so wild to me as a regret

[@E024_]

The vpns carried highschool

[@strangedudee]

My school has a history of weird blockings. At first almost everything was unblocked, im pretty sure some kid looked up h3nta1 once and never got found out. Then they started blocking all of the game sites (cookie clicker, cool math, etc). Then they started blocking youtube videos categorized in gaming. Then it became a toss up with a weighted dice if the website you wanted to use research on was blocked. Then they blocked the category music altogether (which is really, REALLY stupid because our school has an extremely big music program). Then, a few days ago, it was discovered that our school blocked youtube altogether. It doesnt come up with the same "blocked by administration" message as the rest though, the website just will keep loading forever. A good chunk of the teachers here use youtube for things from an assignment, to uploading the tests on there and putting the videos in google forms for us to answer. Point is, our school has actively done everything it can to stop us from learning. The system is so flawed that sometimes it randomly blocks the site we use to check our grades. Im surprised it hasnt blocked wikipedia yet

[@ChickadeeRose]

PowerSchool?

[@EatLeadClankers]

@@ChickadeeRosewhat’s that?

[@Nefare1781]

Literally 1984 😊

[@zoftofthedead]

Yeah everything like that is blocked for us. Its sad.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Your school IT department thinks they're running a Silo or what 💀💀

[@KR_Kosmik]

This wasn't necessarily something that was blocked, but every student was flagged for searching up "suspicious things" because we were reading an article about ww2

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

Do they just...not teach history at that school?

[@KR_Kosmik]

@@TheLobsterCopter5000 they did. We were reading this article for class

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

One time the dean of students asked me why I was looking up guns on my school iPad. I had no idea what he was talking about, and he said “Yeah, some website called American Eagle.” 😂

[@soupcangaming662]

@@icecreamjunkie6790 next he'll projectile vomit on you for looking up French history.

[@AceJackWagon885]

Don't you know? Among Us takes place in WW2.

[@yeeteducation]

Every website except for instagram was blocked on the school computers at my high school. Also the school computers blocked all words that had inappropriate and/or slang words in them, so when I tried to google the number “sigma” to prepare for calculus, it was blocked for being “gang related”.

[@commenter3002]

My school blocked the Children's Internet Protection Act, and then cited the Children's Internet Protection Act as the reason why. They also blocked government sites because they classified as "Business", and also the search query "cipa" to prevent us looking up CIPA.

[@EatLeadClankers]

COPPA and CIPA are such bullshit, dude.

[@GamingForeverEpic]

Your school sounds shady

[@SuperMarioOddity]

very sus my guy

[@wieldylattice3015]

Right, I’m gonna have to recommend you read some George Orwell, immediately. Start with Animal Farm (I swear they aren’t boring reads) because George Orwell often breaks down how a totalitarian government forms in his books, and what your school is doing reminds me of thag

[@wieldylattice3015]

@@graydonweber9825 Bruh I'm just recommending someone else an author's work jokingly because their school is on a power trip no need to be so pretentious

[@cyclonechaser0815]

They had a heap of categories, such as: - News -Videos -Advertisements - Blogging - Sport - Harmful content - Social media - Gambling - Money - Gaming - homophobia - racism - unknown pages Got dropped because teachers began complaining because there were certain things that they had to teach off memory or all hard copy because it was all blocked. Edit: forgot one - streaming and music. That meant Spotify too.

[@intergraphenic]

Unknown pages? So it's more than a blacklist, it's a whitelist?

[@cyclonechaser0815]

@@intergraphenic both

[@zaneboatwright7181]

They blocked news????

[@lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei8]

no news is good news@@zaneboatwright7181

[@grapeyv]

What the frick kind of websites can be labeled as racism and homophobia??

[@COMBATANT_LYNX]

my 8th grade social studies teacher somehow managed to block the entire google site. not just docs or meets or anything, but the google home page itself. if you logged into your chromebook and clicked on google it’d say “this site has been blocked by an administrator.” she couldn’t figure out how to fix it so we got like 2 free periods since my school does pretty much everything online. also, the reason she blocked google was because she was trying to get this one boy to stop looking at pictures of pickles during class. like, the vegetable. no clue why he was looking at pickles during social studies, and no clue how she managed to block the entirety of google but it was hilarious

[@poke548]

Based and picklepilled.

[@AwesomeYena]

Must've been hungry. XD

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

The teacher won but at what cost?

[@aceae4210]

in my school, bing is blocked under the school firewall if I recall the reason it was that the network can't auto set safe search options at the time (not sure if it can now, an example of this thing is youtube being auto set to restricted mode on school networks and such) anyways, because microsoft edge is the default browser, and changing the search engine is tiny bit hidden (go to search settings, then go into a sub menu), just made most people use the google chrome pre installed instead (also another fun thing, they try to block extensions on the browsers, (using admin policys) but it ended up lifting it self becuase the policy it was uses got deprecated and then removed from chrome, meaning extensions don't get blocked)

[@sammieegoldwand]

How. The. FUCK???????

[@sage.81]

My school blocked unblocked games. Also, my teacher was recently having an issue with an article about Thomas Jefferson being blocked lol

[@Knoxtx129]

Not something my school blocked, but something very petty and dumb about my school. They didn't allow highschool students to have any facial hair due to the reasoning "it makes it easier to tell the difference between the students and teachers." Boys also weren't allowed to have hair past their shoulders because it "was distracting." A student and his mother drove to the school parking lot and shaved his head on the school grounds in a bout of malicious compliance, and the video even made it on the news. Tomball Memorial High School, class of '17.

[@psy-fi64]

Wow, that's nutty.

[@garrettwilson7795]

duuuuuude i live near tomball memorial. i go to a private school in the same area. same stupid ass rules there too lmao

[@macklee8835]

​@@garrettwilson7795love ur profile pic

[@AnthonyThings]

it should be illegal for schools to have rules that forces people to change their physical appearance

[@connorbeith3232]

The classic "distracting" excuse. It's not distracting, they're the ones making it distracting by making a big deal about it.

[@Vengeful_Octopus]

My old school’s security system once got an inappropriate search alert because my sister looked up “Carmelite nuns”. What’s even stranger is that it’s a Catholic school.

[@katiel7166]

"I think I have a vocation" - "The hell you do"

[@thedudeamongmengs2051]

I wonder if it thought "nun" was a fetish term maybe. That would be pretty funny for a catholic school

[@lhering]

As a teacher, the dedication schools show to blocking anything, that has even the most remote chance of bringing joy to students, never stops to amaze me.

[@Crispydogs101]

Crazy you are here.

[@joobletmaster5000]

I am normally an anti-teacher man (and by that I just mean that I genuinely believe teachers and doctors are exactly the same in that they have vulnerable people in their charge whom they frequently abuse while receiving praise for doing so, and so I am equally as fed up with and weary about teachers as I am with doctors), however, I will say that I've heard a significant amount of people discussing how parenting trends and modern technology is affecting youth's attention span and ability to respect authority. Which...Idk man I remember it being bad when I was in school, so if it's significantly worse that so many people are discussing it now, and our schools are this deeply affected by alt right politics...man, I just wonder whether the kids are okay. On one hand I remember how necessary my phone was for me in not literally killing myself in my final years of high school, without exaggeration, and on the other hand I also remember how other students used these tools in order to disconnect from their education, their peers, and their teachers.

[@urhooked]

​@@joobletmaster5000nobody reading allat

[@anonhere4021]

@urhooked ?? Bruh it’s two paragraphs

[@loserchips1112]

​@@urhookedi just did before seeing your comment so that's automatically wrong

[@pineapple_animation1097]

I used to think it was super funny to change the code on sites to contain cursed images. I once changed the gif in a language learning site to an image of Shrek x pregnant SpongeBob art. I sent a screenshot to my friend over outlook and accidentally somehow made it my profile picture. I didn’t realise for *three months* by which time they had disabled the ability to change pfps on outlook. I had to email IT pretending I was hacked.

[@zoeywilliams4848]

My dad actually had some parental control restrictions on my phone. For backstory, I was looking up conditioners that didn’t contain an ingredient my hair dislikes, which is silicone. I looked up “silicone free conditioners” and it was blocked. The reason?: some breast implants are made of silicone. I didn’t even know this. My dad was afraid of me looking at boobs. I’m a girl

[@wieldylattice3015]

At least he’s progressive I guess, but literally how the hell are you supposed to avoid silicone that crap is used in the manufacturing of everything I swear. And what if your kid takes an interest in computers? Silicone is one of the most important materials in computers, you just can’t block silicone

[@me-myself-i787]

​@@wieldylattice3015You're confusing silicone with silicon.

[@wieldylattice3015]

@@me-myself-i787 Silicone is quite literally made out of silicon, it's not a hard mistake to make bro

[@adyatma1]

that's silli

[@FiereTheCatBoy]

If, according to your comment saying that some implants are made from silicone, and that you are a girl, it's possible that it wasn't that they wanted to avoid you looking at breasts, but rather they wanted to avoid you getting an implant in yours

[@that_child2292]

For one of my subjects we had to design a video game box, but we weren’t allowed to google search anything because video games was a blocked subject. In the same lesson someone managed to google how to make a pipe bomb

[@yhfhdcf]

When the school bans something but a kid manages to get it on a watchlist:

[@PiePiellow]

I would think this is weird, but I remenbered I had a school project once where we indeed had to research how to make a pipe bomb so I guess that's an educational enought subject

[@PKMNResearcherSkyler]

For my senior year in highschool we were supposed to do a capstone project basically researching a career we wanted to do for ourselves. I had done videogame designer and the internet filters made it a lot harder than it needed to be to find sources. Really sucked because I didn't have internet at home besides a shitty hotspot

[@JaxonBellve]

STOP IT with those weird hatsune mikus that somehow are taking over youtube shorts! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@fivenightsatfives]

WHY PIPE BOMBS BRO 💀💀💀💀💀

[@grapeyv]

Reminds me of the time when I moved in with my father at 12, got my very first iPad (no phone till 17 and a half years old) and he blocked every single website in existence except for google search results page (and ONLY google search results page), and pbs kids. This was all the way until I turned 17. Couldn’t do certain homework or project assignments that required to be finished at home, and teachers didnt listen when I told them my father refused to remove locks on my iPad, so I’d promptly receive Fs on grades, which would make my father angry. I wasn’t allowed to stay at school after hours or I’d be in trouble, this included staying for detention, which my teachers had to ask for permission to keep me after school for. So that wasn’t an option to get projects done, I’d have to do it in between classes or skip certain classes to go to the computer lab/libray and do it. Needless to say my childhood was miserable.

[@velocityraptor2890]

your father sounds like a massive PoS

[@KawaiiFireMoon]

Ima send hugs 🫂

[@DantheManZ-wn6zg]

The fucking audacity of your father and the school smh

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

I would have just went fuk it an just camped out somewhere see is thinking I ran away would change there mind if not a least it was a nice break from the emotion trauma

[@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken]

did you ever bring the iPad into school and show them? could’ve maybe counted as ab*se that he was withholding your education, especially if he then got mad at your grades.

[@KompridiCR]

for a lot of these, they fall under the "scunthorpe problem" (eg. cardio being blocked because it contained "cardi")

[@cadensherman1983]

So I work in IT in a school district, a pretty big one in northern VA. And holy shit. The internal workings of these whitelists/blacklists are truly mistifying. We use a dual server/client setup where certain sites are blocked on both levels (so if you somehow manage to get a VPN working it still blocks it on the device), but for whatever reason it really likes randomly blocking well traveled sites for no reason. Certain sites like KZbin have seemingly random videos filtered out; I watch RTGame a bit and only about 1/2-1/3 of his vids show up on that wifi. The weird part is, they’re still gaming content. Whatever methodology the system uses to figure out which vids to block is basically random. It’s fascinating and infuriating

[@cadensherman1983]

Also, most exes are banned from even downloading, much less running, so figuring out individualized installs and debug tools is a pain

[@wolvvve]

i would get so frustrated when i would need to use youtube for something and KNOWING that im getting a lot less than what im searching for, because more than half of the results were blocked. it was so annoying having our teachers manually unblock a video which they specifically assigned us to watch for a grade

[@netmeister7941]

@@cadensherman1983 With Chromebooks, all .exe files are banned

[@gam8ligant]

homestuck

[@flakky55]

dude so many songs on YT are hidden on my school account, yet they manage to completely ignore all the extremely dark vocaloid songs- even if the songs are in english.

[@adaoncken5588]

One time my school blocked the grading software for teachers. It was also the only place for us to see our grades. There was no way to know what your grades were for the first few months of school. Apparently it's because it started with the letter "S"

[@dumbassgaming5513]

S is also a letter in sex which is super scary I can see why they did it

[@arandomcommenter412]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@dumbassgaming5513I think you mean “I alo a letter in ex which i uper Cary I can ee why they did it”

[@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cj]

@dumbassgaming513 "I can see why they did it" wdym???? just because an inappropriate word starts with S doesn't mean they were right about banning every word that started with S.

[@holyboiamethin2790]

​@@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cjI'm pretty sure they were joking

[@thequagestclodsire]

​@@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cjI think they were being sarcastic.

[@silverhawk4491]

For a couple years, the school's own intranet site was blocked by default, meaning opening up a web browser would immediately give you a blocked page, because the school's site lists its own location, which is in Sussex. At this point, I'm not even sure if it got blocked because of 'sus' or 'sex', given that this happened post-Among Us.

[@walmart_enjoyerwalmart_e-mo4cj]

What about both?

[@cheesycheese8451]

ok this one is the best

[@lukewt1017]

maybe it was because of "sex" because thats not among us related, but thats hilarious XD

[@williamdrum9899]

3000 IQ

[@lukewt1017]

among us didn't popularize "sex", so i guess thats why. but youre S A V A G E for telling their city!!!

[@doombers3231]

i took a lot of art classes in high school. particularly theater. it was a pain in the ass looking for stuff for our projects because webstires that actually had stuff we could be using were blocked because it was under "entertainment and fun".

[@joeybishopthe2720]

Once, my school literally blocked pretty much every site that could protect computers from viruses, but literally every site I know of that could give you a computer virus wasn't blocked, infact, the exact reason the antivirus sites were blocked is because "Could give a virus to your computer" Edit: I remembered why, it was because one of the sites the school used was for some reason read as a virus by antivirus sites, and they literally needed everyone to use it, so they just blocked every antivirus, though that doesn't explain why it said "Could give a virus to your computer".

[@Hedgehogfanatic2006]

I mean, yeah, you are right, every antivirus can give viruses to your computer.

[@AverageCommenterOnYT]

I bet it's because "antivirus" contains the word "virus" and actual viruses don't just say they're viruses

[@joeybishopthe2720]

@@AverageCommenterOnYT The thing is, one site that can give you a virus said "100% Virus free" and it wasn't blocked.

[@robert.7230]

​@@joeybishopthe2720 so they just really hate antivirus?

[@iantaakalla8180]

To be fair, some antiviruses are as harmful as computer viruses.

[@DrKoneko]

At my old school they blocked nearly every website that wasn't used by the curriculum under the thought that it was pornography. It lasted about a week before someone realized the network management password was the same as the school Wi-Fi password and unblocked everything. It was still unblocked when I left the school nearly a year later.

[@TheBattleLoafs]

This is why we don't reuse passwords...

[@justmyselfcn]

In middle school, one of my teachers gave us a research assignment on animals and had us draw animals from a slip of paper in a box. One kid got "naked mole rat." School blocked it, so he was the only kid who had to do his assignment by reading a huge stack of books from the library that the teacher got to waive the due date on because the IT department and admins told her that unblocking "naked mole rat" was "a slippery slope." Also, I think my school used the same blocking software as the guy at 4:10 because they also cited "friendship content" as a blockable offense, only the software blocked not only social media but also sexual results under that label, so that's one hell of a euphemism. Oh, and my friends would use google docs to create "chat rooms" and that made the admins irate.

[@THEOxxx197]

Me and my buds did the google docs chat room as well until we all got phones. Worked like a charm

[@Ambersworstenemy]

Last year me and a couple other friends used Microsoft word as a group chat and everyone else in my grade found it weird as hell and started making fun of us to the point where we had to delete the word document so we wouldn’t be made fun of💀 But like I use gmail to talk to my friends now so it’s ok

[@THEOxxx197]

@@Ambersworstenemy yeah, all of my friends eventually got phones so we don’t use it anymore. But it was over 900 pages long I think. It spanned from 6th to almost 9th grade…it’s crazy. We got made fun of too but everyone else used dumb way so I never cared LMAO

[@Ambersworstenemy]

@@THEOxxx197 900 PAGES? We used to clear the “chat” every week or so. The longest the document has ever been at was about 10 pages.

[@ducksongfans]

yes i rember in 5th grade everybody in the grade had a slide in google slides and also a main slide for chating then the teachers found out and everybody left and i still have it but its just one black slide

[@Jackdoesthings100]

My school blocked ANYTHING with the word “game” mentioned anywhere on the website. We couldn’t use the app required for schoolwork

[@geekyclaire]

My 9th grade English teacher had us use a website called Citation Machine to help us learn how to formate citations for our papers. I tried to use it once on the school computer but it was blocked, so I called him over to show him. He then proceeded to yell, out loud, the reason the site was labeled as blocked: "PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"

[@AngelStarrrjam]

my school for some reason blocked like some APA formatting stuffs because it was labelled as Hacking.

[@pandawholikesSetItOff]

HUH? THAT MAKES NO SeNSE

[@SeaDog1667-1st]

Imagine the reactions of the other students. 🤣

[@hamburger_eatspie]

This comment had me chuckling.

[@YW2324]

Wtf 😒😅

[@WillowStarshower]

As a follow up maybe, random stuff you managed to get blocked on school computers. I got the chrome plug-ins blocked because I grabbed an official dark mode theme off it, the school’s reasoning; “you could infect the computers with a virus”. This had the unfortunate side effect of disabling the schools Adblock, meaning that there were untargeted ads everywhere (including some less than safe for school ones).

[@virmirfan]

I'm wondering now if it could be possible for doing that to cause the computer to go into a paradox, due to how it works

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

in year 9 we managed to get youtube blocked and then unblocked in year 11 because the sixth formers were able to access it and for some reason also let us use it??? we werent complaining tbh

[@NoriMori1992]

I swear every school on Earth is staffed by brainlets.

[@durgun8247]

ads can actually present a security risk iirc, so that likely worsened security instead of tightening it

[@pikacrafter2903]

I got Wattpad banned on the school wifi in my county, not for the fanfiction on it, but because I used the private messaging system to get someone to threaten my ex-boyfriend in sixth grade.

[@aclarke7486]

One of my schools had a web filter that blocked practically everything. It was as much a problem for the teachers as it was for anyone else. I still remember one teacher repeatedly getting more and more irritated as every single lesson plan of his got thwarted by this filter until he gave up entirely and ended class early.

[@sylvanticx]

Not sure if I’ve ever had a teacher who hasn’t been enraged by the KZbin restrictions. They now often use their own devices on a Wi-Fi hotspot. Stuff like Amazon movies also gets blocked, leading to piracy in order to show the class educational movies.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@sylvanticx i guess you could say its criminal how bad the restrictions are ahaha

[@sylvanticx]

@@soupcangaming662 lmao

[@moxiemouse24]

at my school the filters only apply to student devices, so instead sometimes teachers have to play "is this website gonna be blocked for the kids" roulette

[@ember808]

In my final year of middle school they decided to crack down on games/cheating and block so many websites that we regularly used such as scratch games, however you could bypass this by just going into the computers guest mode which wasn’t disabled for some reason and access any website except for google maps which the school had randomly decided to completely purge from any computer

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

My high school also had the Dinosaur game blocked. To rub it in even more, our school had such bad WiFi that every time a break started, I would get disconnected and couldn't work on my assignment anymore for a full five minutes because my school only provided us with Chromebooks that require internet. So not only was I unable to work on my assignments, I couldn't even play a game while I waited

[@donutguy804]

Same.

[@velocityraptor2890]

that's cruel

[@CourtneyCorndogs]

My school district blocked the dinosaur game, and my weird ahh Math teacher blocked gmail and the app we used to check our grades, so we could only use them if we weren’t in school

[@Z0mb13-34ts-BrAInzZz]

A few years ago, the Google snake game got really popular in our school. Everyone was playing it almost constantly, instead of doing their work. The problem with this game was that since it was just a web search, the administrators couldn't just block any website. The game could be accessed by typing 'snake' but could also get through with 'snek' 'snnake' 'snak' etc so more and more words/phrases were blocked. I had a project to do on snakes because they were my favorite animal recently, and the blocking hadn't been taken down, so I had to search the most distorted spellings of the word snake to get around it-

[@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story]

sneakenaen?

[@hecate7]

Marvus?

[@varahunter68]

sneighk

[@ocarinaholmes]

Ahab

[@alexsmart9576]

Serpent

[@peterparkour9405]

any mention of the word "game" or "video game" is blocked on the computers at my school. you'd think this would be somewhat reasonable y'know to prevent kids playing games in class. but they failed to consider the fact that they offer a media studies a-level course and any google search, news article, etc about the video game industry gets blocked, which is really making it hard to study the media in media studies

[@Aurelius_unofficial]

This has already been talked about but the banning of google translate is because if you use it's website translation features it would allow you to use blocked sites, basically being a proxy You can still translate things by just typing "translate to _" and it'll come up as a widget on the seach results

[@TeaSippingCommunist]

PLEASE TELL ME HOW MAKE GOOGLE TRANSLATE PROXY

[@itzalex5258]

For some reason my school decided to block the website for Lockheed Martin for the reason of 'military content'. However, the official NATO site wasn't blocked, and neither was the US army website. Literally enlisting wasn't seen as containing any military content. I guess our IT guy had a real bone to pick with the private arms sector.

[@EatLeadClankers]

But Lockheed Martin has such badass pics :(

[@bootmii98]

Northrop shill

[@AngryGrape1337]

Maybe the IT guy works for a competitor.

[@rm_steele]

​@@AngryGrape1337 must work for raytheon

[@wolfe_blxechannelmoved4512]

Even though the teachers allow us to play music in class, Spotify is banned. The schools reason? “It’s social media.”

[@petermmm42]

they allow youtube?

[@princesspixel3151]

My high school at least allowed KZbin when I was there. The school computer though had too much restrictions… and then I got my first smartphone and used KZbin there! …Until one of my teachers suddenly decided that’s forbidden. (Could’ve told me BEFORE I opened the KZbin app?)

[@charliesretrocomputing]

My school asks people to use Spotify instead of KZbin but Spotify is blocked 💀

[@r.asterisk]

​@@princesspixel3151✔️✔️

[@Nexalian_Gamer]

Mine did but they had that stupid setting forced on where only "kid-friendly" videos would show up. Not videos made for kids, but videos that weren't age-restricted or contained profanity or shit like that@@petermmm42

[@amandahugenkiss2310]

Most of these are examples of the “Scunthorpe problem” where access was limited for certain words because they have swear words within them, even if the words themselves are appropriate. The name originated from Scunthorpe, a British town whose inhabitants couldn’t sign up to AOL because their town name had the word “cunt” in it.

[@thezackast2752]

They should have named it the Penistone problem much funnier imo

[@TheBattleLoafs]

So basically a clbuttic mistake

[@SnailSnail622]

I got one of these when I was in high school. In my biology class we were assigned an article about cockroaches to read on the online learning platform we used. But because of the way the platform handled swear words, it displayed as “****roaches.”

[@MyDadStoleMyArm]

Well, that's nothing. Anything that ends in the letter Y is blocked on my school computers. No idea the reason, it just is. For some reason, the letter y is blocked, but anything CONTAINING it isn't unless it's at the end. I posted a whole comment about it, so I won't say anything more, not that I really need to since that's about the extent of it, without the examples and stuff in the whole comment.

[@AutisticAnn]

So I can’t use Google Classroom because it has the A word in it?

[@scenekid-8]

my school banned stock photos for “mature art”

[@daisythestargazer]

HELPPPPP

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

the I.T. department has actively blocked sites that I used for school more often than blocked things that actually shouldn't be in school, and if it weren't for them, I would not have given up on A: using my spare time in class for designing profitable inventions B: using my spare time in class to make animation instead of using my spare time in class to play spider solitaire when I don't even like spider solitaire that much.

[@sylvanticx]

My school blocked spider solitaire.

[@LazyNVersions]

Honestly, I’d be doing better on some assignments if they let me get into the article so I could read it. One of the go-to Astronomy websites is blocked! Google search for 90% of STDs are blocked! My Health teacher has *specific papers with websites that are marked as okay* so people can do their work.

[@masonlynch1793]

@@sylvanticxmine blocked all the google games.

[@xfirewolfy]

theres a black market in my school for unblocked game links

[@gaspitsher]

​@@xfirewolfyI mean, that's what happens when schools block everything. They had it coming ＼(・ω・)／

[@mech1x]

my school blocked the ability to change your keyboard language to anything that isn't English. As someone who studies Korean in my free time, in order to write, I now have to find and copy/paste every single character. The Korean alphabet has 11,172 possible letter combinations 🙃

[@stefanofeblesverastegui8869]

I propose the solution to swap the timeslots you use for Korean at school with the timeslots you don't use for Korean at home.

[@kathot_4103]

I believe you can get a digital keyboard on your screen, just click on the letters with your mouse :)

[@DeeAfton]

Can't you use Google translate??

[@mech1x]

@DeeAfton technically yes, but it's really finicky to use. I usually use the insert symbols tab on google docs and search for them there lol

[@stefanofeblesverastegui8869]

@@DeeAfton Found the monolingual

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

we once had the opposite problem: a teacher wanted to show us that some websites are blocked and ended up accidentally showing porn to a classroom of ten year olds

[@epicellableu]

You teacher was on... something

[@Foxy_the_pirate749]

Teacher: oh shi-

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

@@Foxy_the_pirate749 if only. she went "that's not suppoused to happen" and very slowly closed the web page

[@emogangstacatpwincess420]

HAHAH WHATTTTT

[@illusionistcat]

HOW IM SO CONFUSED

[@Rainbow_Owner]

whenever there isnt internet, everyone in school tries to play the dinosaur game, but then when we try, 3 asteroids come to kill the dinosaur 😭😭

[@toamatoro570]

A friend of mine tried to watch an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog junior year but the computer blocked it because it was classified as "porn". "Courage the Cowardly Porn Star" became an inside joke for us that year.

[@Fuzy2K]

"STUPID DOG, YOU MADE ME CUM!"

[@mr_silver_eyes]

Why was a cartoon about a dog getting scared by monsters categorized as porn? What the actual hell?

[@wegner7036]

@@mr_silver_eyes That one episode about domestic abuse between the cat and her abusive dog boyfriend, maybe? It was a weird show. Could've contained literal porn at some point for all I know.

[@anthonykhan1676]

Can't believe people get off to an easily frightened pink dog running into horrible monsters in order to protect his caregivers 💀

[@penguinslippers]

I had a friend that would bypass the block system for his school computer and then institute his own blocked sites for the IT department, such as all the school sites that IT needed access to for their job. Such a madlad, I'd have to ask him how he actually did it, he told me a couple years ago but I have forgotten since then.

[@qazuninja]

ask him PLEASE

[@Fair_Nuff]

that might have been a little cruel

[@thegodofeggs]

For a period of time, the word "friendship" was blocked on my computer. And this proves my theory that my school used to be a federal prison.

[@shitanotosaurus]

school sometimes feels like a colorful prison made for kids

[@Hmmmnnhh]

Why does that sound like the premise of a bad kids movie

[@KalavianGD]

One time a URL randomly generated the characters "MP3" and it got blocked

[@cts3696]

wdym “my” and “used to be”

[@thegodofeggs]

@@cts3696 It was just on my computer. I did it on others, but nobody had the same problem. And, the 'used to be' is a joke that the school originally was a federal prison, but got remodeled as a school.

[@goobstermom1027]

3:24 why does it sound like he’s rapping

[@lilithreusch2614]

My old school didn't block anything ridiculous, but their blocking of one video game led to a covert blocking/unblocking war in which someone coded an unblocking software, the school banned the website, and so on and so forth.

[@JTBJacksdeadasschannel]

My school has no clue what a proxy site is so they don’t even block it. You can literally watch porn using one it’s fucking great.

[@anondimwit]

@@JTBJacksdeadasschannel why are you watching porn in school

[@teagannam]

The worst one at my high school was probably when they accidentally blocked access to the SATs and PSATs because they didn’t want students looking up answers .-.

[@virmirfan]

I'm guessing many students failed

[@teagannam]

@@virmirfan it was a test run thankfully lol

[@therealgaben5527]

I thought lock down browser would be enough for something like that. Also how did they expect you to study if all of the websites containing sat and past were blocked???

[@jordancambridge4106]

I got Cool Math for Games unblocked forever at my middle school. I proved to a district school board employee that lunar lander was a learning thing that taught critical thinking and taught kids how to do complicated math without any issues. I mostly pulled shit out of my ass but the way I said it was pure genius. I also had the person play the game and they literally took about 10 minutes of me explaining simple stuff in the game before the guy literally got the hang of it and declared they are unbanning it in all schools in my city and will keep it unbanned forever or as long as they can try to keep it unbanned and it has never been banned again. Lunar Lander makes you have to learn to control the angles of the shit and the planet and keep an eye on your fuel gage and distance gauge in order to keep playing the game and to be able to keep going as far as you can get into the game secretly teaching kids geometry and algebra while being actually fun to play. By mastering the ability of playing lunar lander you in fact master the ability to learn geometry and algebra at the same time. Its a secret training tool to actually teach children math disguised as a fun game.

[@AtomicArtumas]

I mean... that's literally why it's called "cool MATH games", after all. It's the most frustrating part of schools banning a lot of stuff, is they often actively ban stuff that's literally educational, intended to be educational, and is way more engaging for someone younger than reading a textbook is, and then they all wonder why grades consistently drop and students hate school. I can 100% say I've learned more genuine skills from playing video games than I ever did in public school. ESPECIALLY math. And I'm saying this as a 30 y/o adult. And it's not just like, one or 2 subjects. Math, physics, history, language recognition, biology, design, computer science, cryptography, medical science, handicrafts, English, etc. etc. etc. etc. P.E. is pretty much the only thing that pre-college/university school really provides better than self-education honestly does. But even that is often pathetic compared to actually having access to an actual gym, as just running a bunch really doesn't do much for anything other than basic stamina lol. Like, yeah, proper higher education is still needed, but... I'll be honest, playing games with high intellectual requirements, such as games that have lua coding as a gameplay requirement, or stuff like KSP or hyper modded minecraft, as well as stuff like crusader kings, that has actual historical value, among MANY other games, will probably teach your average person WAY more about general life skills and get them using their brain more, than "memorize this and repeat it on a test next week" ever will. I mean... I literally have the equivalent math skills of a master's degree, despite having never taken a single advanced math class, purely because of video game damage formulas and whatnot. And I can say this with confidence, as my aunt is a math professor who just recently got her phd and I've generally been able to keep up with her.

[@flop-00]

​@@AtomicArtumasomg geoguessr, globle, and like every other world geography-related game is banned including the obscure geography wordle-isms at my school

[@veryepicgamer432]

you are a god

[@ilovecakecanihaveapiece]

​@@flop-00 They banned geoguessr's stuff involving quizzes such as "Southern States and Capitals" which we were using *in class* because it was labelled as "educational games".

[@demetriajones3231]

Actual legend

[@PopNerd-c9c]

3:20 hearing matt say YEEAAAHHHH BAABBBYYY Is something i didn't know i needed in life

[@LevBC10]

Fun fact: when the google dinosaur game came out the message if it was blocked said “fun has been blocked by administrator” before they were forced into changing it

[@slasherthedragon9781]

SAME

[@itssummer_]

Lol! I remember my school blocked the dinosaur game 😂

[@not-so-obvious_autism777]

SAVAGE 😭😭😭😭🙏🏽

[@supersmashseandx1991]

They should've kept it

[@LONGLIVETHEBLACKPARADE]

@@supersmashseandx1991 real

[@RandomSlug]

One time in school our teacher posted a diagram of different type of clouds in google classroom for us to look at. But when he clicked on it, it was blocked. He scrolled down to see the reason as to why it was block and there was one word: *”Friendship”*

[@hamburger_eatspie]

No friends allowed

[@skittlePsychic]

friendship is NOT magic😭😭😭

[@TeaSippingCommunist]

No friendship in MY classroom

[@Ems154Che-se.ANIMATEDpng]

@@skittlePsychicfriendship was magic.

[@Shadow-of-memes911]

looks like the power of friendship isn't allowed in school

[@CsHyper]

My old school blocked the word "sad" and whenever I typed it in, doesn't matter where, I'd get a visitation notice, so I just typed in "emotionally distressed". They didn't block Reddit for some reason.

[@stfuyoutube423]

your school is awful

[@j_the_guyis_taken3409]

Omg basded shcool??? 😂😂😂

[@MBZ901]

"What do you mean sad, all of our students are wondrously happy!" (sponsored by Reddit)

[@silveradoz4721]

my school also doesn't block reddit

[@Gavinthecandyhuman]

WOW JUST WOW… (maybe put “not happy”)

[@Iead]

3:37 That post was sent during 2012. Their school was ahead of their time

[@vaporskies63]

My school had the words "snake" and "slope" blocked because of the games. It also had the word "google" blocked for three days before enough teachers complained about that idiotic idea and they unblocked it. If you looked up images on bing (thats the web browser the computers forced you to use) and tried to click on ANY image to make it easier to download, it would kick you out of bing entirely. Our IT department wasnt the brightest.

[@tatguygeylolololo]

any word that includes "pp" is blocked for me.

[@3lectronica]

OMG my school still does that, every time I click an image on Bing it just redirects me to Google, which imo has a way worse image searching system

[@cheesycheese8451]

​@@Lazy_.Lavenderyou get banned for LOOKING THINGS UP??

[@vaporskies63]

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 oops i meant microsoft edge, using the bing search engine, my bad!

[@3lectronica]

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 Bing images? Yeah, it's the thing Edge uses

[@furonguy42]

When I was at secondary school, the word "games" was blocked... fair enough, stop people going on browser games in class... So anyway, on one occasion, we were tasked with using the computers to research the Olympics. Commonly known as the Olympic Games.

[@useless8695]

my school blocked the results on the search “games” so 1001*games* for example was blocked because we played that for a school year They also blocked chrome web store (/extentions) so me and my friends just went to chrome web store (/games) what i didnt like was the fact that they also made it so you HAVE to login to a school account not any gmail so no more google play

[@eforoyal]

Sadly, companies can be just as weird. :( My former employer randomly decided to block my entire internet access without any warning. This is not great, considering that part of my job was creating return labels for all the stuff that was supposed to return to its manifacturer. For that, I needed to go to the website of DHL and fill out a form there, which is obviously hard to do if I'm not allowed to use the internet. I left the company two months later and to this day, I have no idea why this happened. Even the IT guy who initially tried to help me had no idea what was going on...

[@thoseonetrains]

i hope whoever did that was fired from his job

[@eforoyal]

@UrAutisticMexican Thank you!

[@eforoyal]

To fire the person who did this, they would probably need to know who did it first. When I left, my internet access hadn't returned and no one gave me an explanation on why it happened. The closest thing was this IT dude who just promised to look into it, but never got in touch with me... Maybe it was just a mistake, IDEK. Still, it's been almost 3 years since I left this shithole, so how knows who found out. Well, for some reasons, my workplace was just bad at IT. It took me two month to get access to the program where I could clock in because HR never bothered to send my log-in information right after they made it, I instead had to write down my work hours by hand. One member of HR still complained by my supervisor why I wasn't clocking in, to which he reminded her that she still owed me an access to the software. Even then, she had to be reminded twice before she finally told me my log-in informatiom. It also took half a year until I got access to a work e-mail account because again, no one felt responsible actually sending it to me. They also randomly decided that the database the company used will actively force you to unlock it with your passwort (which I somehow got surprisingly early in my second week) if you don't look at it for 2 minutes. It didn't even matter if you were doing other stuff on your PC, unlock it for "data safety"! Weirdly enough, the database software apparently gave me, a worker from the warehous of an hospital, unlimited access to the files of patients...

[@poliwhirlking]

My school blocked Fire Man's Stage theme from the first Mega Man game, and Gyro Man's stage theme from Mega Man 5. And I'll never know why.

[@SuperiorPosterior]

The Hub (you know the one) was not blocked on my school's computers. There was one week where a shortcut to the site was added to the list of shared items that every school computers' home screen pulled from. Took the teachers three days to notice, and four to fix it, and they still didn't ban the site. They finally managed to ban the site by the time I was leaving school, but they accidentally funnelled their whitelist into the blacklist, meaning the school's own homework portal wasn't working at school.

[@maxhadanidea]

how the hell does that even happen?

[@thepip3599]

My high school’s website where teachers posted all our course materials was called “The Hub”, so at first I thought you were talking about that and I got confused.

[@amproliknugget]

@thepip3599 that is kinda sus ngl 💀

[@galaxys8-ml]

How did it get added to all computers lol? Maybe someone hacked into it admin

[@liilysilly]

your school is ghetto

[@silencehollow4545]

My school blocked KZbin, which is a problem because my business teacher uses a ton of KZbin tutorials in her class. We can't watch them on our own, and can't access them outside of school because we have to use our school emails to access the Google Classroom to which the videos are posted. One of my teachers tried to block Google on our computers so we wouldn't be looking up random stuff in class. The search bar was still usable from the "website blocked" page. And my personal favorite: the school blocked Amazon because some kid was going on it during class and racked up their subtotal in their cart to be over $2 million. No, they did not check out. But it was glorious.

[@ForeverFree2Play]

😂ahaha

[@aegeangaming8280]

Did your school use securly?

[@rjd-kh8et]

Blocking PETA's website for mature content is understandable. They once posted a cat's head cut in half on Twitter. Also, my school blocked Google Translate and the Internet Archive because they could supposedly be used to access other blocked websites.

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

This is true, thee websites can

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

This is true, thee websites can

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

This is true, thee websites can

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

This is true, thee websites can

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

This is true, thee websites can

[@ryguy2006]

Once had a school counselor show up to our biotech class because we were researching pharmaceuticals and a bunch of kids ended up getting flagged 💀

[@kinnie3221]

What I've learnt from working as IT in a school; some of these aren't even deliberate. Sometimes the block system just decides to do its own thing 💀

[@oberonpanopticon]

everyone gangsta until the keyword blockinator becomes self aware

[@Kronos.Saturn]

@@oberonpanopticon LOL

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@Kronos.Saturn skynet but all it does is censor everything

[@Kronos.Saturn]

@@oberonpanopticon LMAOO

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@Kronos.Saturn honestly that’d still be pretty catastrophic lol

[@moonlark_lover6532]

One time in social studies, we were supposed to research one of the American colonies, and I got Connecticut. Turns out the founder of Connecticut was named “Thomas Hooker” and I couldn’t research him on my school computer because it had the word “hooker” in it.

[@teathesilkwing7616]

To be fair I don’t think anyone cares enough about Connecticut to have noticed that in advance

[@MBZ901]

come to think of it, I think I had the same problem

[@iKadaj]

meanwhile at my school, a friend and i read books about teenage prostitution in the school library.

[@agent56100]

My high school didn’t block anything, it just sent reports to the school library about which device numbers were searching “inappropriate topics.” While I was working there as an assistant, some of the amazing results I saw flagged were: “Amethyst Crystal” “Tits for Tats” “Gerald Ford” “Cleverbot Sex” “Lapras”

[@sirtopoftheworldegg]

"Ameythst crystals" I gotta get me some meyth

[@kdc0723]

wow those are some amazing results

[@givemeyourliquids4111]

Why lapras tho ?

[@Sicentus]

Gerald ford???

[@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz]

Cleverbot sex ?????????????

[@Tinytots1-f7u]

2:36 probably because of how frustrating the game is… and they don’t want they’re CHROMEBOOKS broken…

[@halfbat32]

genuinely baffling to see how many schools don't (or didn't) block twitter. i vividly remember tweeting, in class, on a school chromebook, in 2017. i would always make the window as small as possible to avoid anyone seeing that i was browsing twitter in class

[@aqua4089]

At my high school we were the first generation to have tablets for school, meaning we all had to bring a tablet and install the school’s system that blocked websites and apps that were not appropriate during school hours. We spent that whole year fighting against the IT department eventually resulting in us being able to, and I couldn’t believe this, _uninstall the entire school software_ and when the IT guys passed to check if we hadn’t removed it _reinstall the software from the IT department’s server_ .

[@adiamond563]

The revolution

[@Youcancallmesummer_]

Our school tablets literally can’t save any work you’ve done. My friend wanted to have a presentation about something and the day before the tablet just deleted all her work

[@Yushuai-lh4fd]

i dont even have anything to say, thats literally saving so much money it makes the students life worse

[@Youcancallmesummer_]

@@Yushuai-lh4fd I KNOW, but kids took pictures so ig it was the best to do lol

[@HitSpaceGD]

In 3rd grade I got ahold of the settings app on my school iPad. Managed to apply so many settings it became impossible for me to log back in and I had to use a different one for the rest of the year 💀

[@GirlzGirlzGirlz_]

The music video for y’all want a single by Korn is blocked on the school computers

[@Alguien644]

Not even my tablet did that, we used to store games

[@endarus6053]

Im so glad I was homeschooled. Im an introvert, so i would gladly give up the opportunity to have friends just so i don't have to deal with the bs i keep hearing about regular school. In my opinion, parents should teach their children just as much as teachers do.

[@Tilley8]

My school blocked my calculator‘s user manual as a video game.

[@allisonsroom]

When I was in high school, I remember my school blocking tumblr because it had friendship content. It was the weirdest reason for a website to be blocked and the reason still makes me laugh to this day.

[@EpikBirb]

Friendship jumpsc

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH@@EpikBirb

[@legit.maniac]

last year i got IP banned on scratch at school so it banned the entire network and no one was able to get on lol

[@yhfhdcf]

Absolutely hate elementary school computers. They blocked GOOGLE but forced us to use bing or yahoo which is the stupidest thing. How old are they 90? Finally glad to be in middle school now as we can finally have our own computers.

[@iKadaj]

@@yhfhdcfi remember some years back, literally no matter what random word you could possibly think of to put in the search using bing, you'd get porn of it or a naked woman posing with it. it was funny at first but i eventually wanted to get actually useful search results and switched to google.

[@GippyHappy]

Makes me glad to have gone to school that didn't block anything. Literally everyone was playing games in computer class and the teachers didn't care as long as you finished your work first. I discovered all the best computer games because of that.

[@petermmm42]

any good games you can share?

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

bro my old middle school blocked microsoft powerpoint 💀

[@GippyHappy]

I swear I typed an entire list of games idk what happened@@petermmm42

[@kumeoii]

my school blocks this stuff after discovering it, but my grade just finds new site after new site. Like it’s not even worth it to try. They just immediately find a new site.

[@Crow_Is_My_Pookie]

in my free time i would be looking at images of red guy from dhmis idk how that wasn't blocked despite being a horror series also once my school blocked you from searching the word..... GRASS

[@Lonescarlet]

My school blocked youtube once. And it wasn’t just the youtube website, it also somehow applied to the embedded videos on edpuzzle and google classroom. We couldn’t watch videos for assignments for 3 months

[@casualcommenter7152]

We need more videos talking about the dictatorial authoritarianism of schools.

[@I_Hate_YouTube.]

Can this be categorized as a thought crime?

[@Nonebiney]

Literally 1984

[@avangardismm]

God is good

[@bellenesatan]

​@@avangardismmGod is God

[@sadking1394]

@@avangardismmsatan is better

[@Squares2]

The page for “obtuse angle” was blocked, even the teachers themselves don’t know why

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Based acute angle supremacists

[@devincetee5335]

That was obtuse

[@storm-the-wize]

This comment is underrated

[@sylvanticx]

Maybe because obtuse can mean stupid so they thought it used degrading language? Idk

[@MBZ901]

@@sylvanticx yes be nice to the triangle :

[@gabbithealicorn7327]

1:11 To be fair, PETA does a lot of shock content for its ads or to drum up publicity, including stuff with blood and guts, so labeling it as “mature” actually makes sense.

[@txwtw]

Some of their adverts are..disturbing to say the least.

[@gabbithealicorn7327]

@@txwtw oh for sure

[@txwtw]

That fish advert is something..@@gabbithealicorn7327

[@Calk-go3em]

And the games are just worse...

[@gabbithealicorn7327]

@@Calk-go3em Don’t remind me…oh God, Pokémon Black and Blue 😫

[@AndrewRocks095]

My school blocked Scratch because a ton of people were leaving their scratch tabs open in class. Not playing it, just having a tab open. Our computer class used Scratch so for the whole year we were stuck sitting there messing around on google docs or slides.

[@iosonorubykenhiga]

My old school's computers blocked KZbin, but only for the teachers. I still have no idea what purpose this served. Probably never will.

[@69SuperSeniorGoJo69]

I’m dying rn in Only words I can say out loud is “DHEJDFJJREJEJDIGJRHDRHRUEIJFWJKSLSLUEJ”

[@starrby7790]

I think they were guessing teachers were showing their kids fun videos during class instead of teaching which not the case ever unless it's like the day before a big break

[@Xenuos]

sounds like the IT didn't give a damn when setting it up lol

[@lebredmans]

My school filter blocked itself.

[@69SuperSeniorGoJo69]

@@starrby7790 the problem is that schools HAVE to use KZbin sometimes

[@acesinger6092]

5:09 That was the most *perfect* “I’m in” I have ever heard in my life

[@DJWolfy23]

My old school was so bad. I coded some games and released them, and I had a website for them. A teacher heard me talking about my games, and I find the next day -- my website is blocked. My own freaking tiny website is blocked and I know exactly who's responsible. I then played a game of cyber chasey with them and made 3 more websites before they finally gave up

[@GamingForeverEpic]

I wanted to show my friends my mediocre speedruns because they were playing the same game at the time, and it turns out my KZbin account is blocked by the school wtfff

[@donpollo3154]

Damn that's actually impressive though, coding your own games just to play at school?

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@donpollo3154I mean it could be exported from scratch into a website like how mountain games does it

[@DJWolfy23]

@@donpollo3154 I was bored, hated the school, and by that point (it was a couple weeks before I would move to my new school) the teachers new I had checked out I think. They tried to give me detentions but I pointed out that I wouldn't actually be there for them next week. They said I had to come back from orientation after school to take the detentions. I told them no. It was so good.

[@spookyandkora]

Do the websites still exist? Send a link

[@fileconne]

3:17 YOUR STUCK WITH AUSTIN POWERS? IM STUCK WITH ROYALE HIGH CHARACTERS FROM 2020

[@anonomooose]

Once in elementary school I tried looking up ‘hot chocolate’ but it was blocked, probably due to the word ‘hot’. I had to look up ‘warm chocolate’. Also depending on how young the students were, I totally get blocking the peta website. It displays pictures of hurt and suffering animals without blurring or an option to hide them. It could be traumatizing for a young child

[@MatingPress]

I think the reason was more likely the games on PETA's website, especially their infamous Pokémon parody game. They are always very gory and just disturbing in general, because PETA's entire strategy is to try to guilt trip people into becoming vegan.

[@idle_speculation]

PETA makes parodies of games like Cooking Mama and Pokémon where animals get brutally ripped apart in gory detail, so it should be blocked

[@Troublethecat]

Peta also has a history of making heavily sexualized add campaigns for shock value.

[@SilverAceOfSpades]

​@@Troublethecat the cow tiddy and stuffed human ones?

[@AstroTheSillyMoonGuy]

​@@idle_speculationNo, NOT THE POKEMON

[@Fakenamelance]

My favorite block categories I've seen personally are: Friendship, education, collaborative work, and perhaps my personal favorite "[Students full name] please stop trying to get around the filter, we can see everything you do and at this point just check every site you visit. It's getting boring just stop." Which was applied to every site for five minutes one day.

[@AceJackWagon885]

"You may be able to see what I do right now, but after I use LTMEAT, I will be gone like your father" That's funny tho

[@AutisticAnn]

WTH

[@rijaja]

These answers show one thing: the filters are really intrusive. Blocking a website? Yeah that's basic proxy configuration. But blocking words involves looking into what everyone is doing, and I can't see how they'd do that except installing spyware on every computer. I don't think that's even legal where I live.

[@SlendyMawn]

School computers are littered with spyware like LanSchool, at my school we weren't really finding ways to subvert the filters, but finding ways to subvert the spyware

[@TonyTear]

it really is nasty, but if a school can do it, so can a big corporation who made your device :)

[@GlenJHenderson]

we have firewalls to do it at our school, its a case of just chuck in the wildcard you would want to blacklist, we dont have any spyware its just that particular words get flagged

[@Bigcockdude999]

you can use the wifi bill to see every search that was made

[@rijaja]

@@Bigcockdude999 your isp can see how many requests you made, but not what was inside.

[@TrideGD]

Not school computer, but I tried uploading something called "glittering shores" but it wouldn't let me because it contains "hores"

[@homeTv-iu2uu]

This is an example of Scunthorpe problem 😮