<p>I'm sure they probably censor really bad websites but do they take it to an extreme like in Highschool networks?</p>
<p>How many things are blocked</p>
<p>Are video games blocked? Which ones?</p>
<p>Depends on the college, but I think most of them don’t care. I go to UC Davis and none of the sites I frequent are blocked–we do get in trouble IF we mass-torrent or illegally download something and we’re caught, though. I don’t think even the porn sites are blocked, but then again, I’ve never checked. I don’t watch porn anyway.</p>
<p>I walked into the library once and these two dudes were laughing their asses off when a porn site was on the screen. They were trying to close it fast then the page was “Not Responding.” I was laughing hard too when I saw. Funny as hell man.</p>
<p>Mine doesn’t at all so I assume most universities don’t. Only thing you can’t do is torrent… Although you can get away with it, I just didn’t while I was at the dorms/in uni buildings.</p>
<p>At my university the policy is to never monitor what sites the students are using. Torrent blockers are beaten with hotspot shield. They say that the only way you can get in trouble is if you download a ton of stuff illegally and they get a letter asking for your address. Then they will side with whatever company is asking for your information.</p>
<p>My school monitors, but does not censor activity which isn’t illegal.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t censor the internet (but you will get in trouble for looking up porn or something really explicit like that on the public computers), the only monitoring is a system that kicks off computers that haven’t been registered with the school and one that prevents massive downloads on the network (to prevent torrenting)</p>
<p>Extremely conservative schools like Liberty will block internet sites, which is really sad in my opinion. </p>
<p>I certainly will never miss high school internet filters. Once I had a debate topic about marijuana, and I couldn’t do any in-class research.</p>
<p>The only schools that filter are the super strict religious ones (PCC, Liberty, Bob Jones, etc.) If you go to a “normal” college/university, you most likely will not have to worry about that.</p>
<p>Where I went to they only blocked like Torrnet and other p2p like programs. But no nothing like facebook or youtube or anything. Like they do in high schools.</p>
<p>I think my school has some sort of filter in place that blocks known malware sites, but other than that they don’t monitor or censor internet use. If you do anything illegal enough that the authorities come knocking, though, they will furnish them with whatever evidence they request (that is, stuff done on school networks is considered public and not subject to the right of privacy).</p>
<p>Mine doesn’t block anything…that seems weird to think that some schools do. I think they monitor what you do on their networks though, I’ve had friends who got cease and desist letters for downloading music…but why would a college censor its internet?</p>
<p>My school doesn’t monitor normal websites, but if you illegally download, they will revoke your network privileges. This isn’t HS, remember?</p>
<p>My school doesn’t censor anything. I work part-time for the IT department and its always funny to see how many people are surfing porn sites simultaneously. However if you pirate stuff we get a letter from the RIAA/MPAA and we have to turn you in. The websites themselves are never blocked though.</p>
<p>Nope, they’re like any other ISP (except they give me ridiculous speeds that no residential ISP would).</p>
<p>I would not go to a school that did block internet sites, if one exists.</p>
<p>No this isn’t highschool and you actually have some degree of freedom. There are no blocked websites at my school, though you CAN get in trouble for torrenting copyrighted material but I haven’t heard of it happening.</p>
<p>Nope, but my school does monitor it. My friend was threatened to lose her Internet privileges if she kept illegally downloading stuff though.</p>
<p>Going off what others have said, I’m not aware of there being live monitoring from the school (there could be, I don’t know), but like others have said it’s in the policy that you’ll be turned in if a letter comes about illegal downloads.</p>
<p>The computer registration is actually good because it prevents the network being slowed down by visitors or people on their cell phones who think they’re too good for the guest network.</p>
<p>Yep, they do put filters on some of the websites. It varies from college to college. Most of the college do put filters.</p>
<p>^ No, most colleges do NOT put up filters. Most colleges believe in very little censorship of any kind. They only crack down on those doing illegal things.</p>
<p>For me a college with a filtered internet is a huge red flag.</p>