The world of UK college internet

I'm surprised also, but if I am a student there, I will be thankful.

Because the url contains diablo 3 ?
Well, well... its sick. VPN my friend. Sad but true.

Eww.. Internet Explorer.

I didn't understand what you were getting at before -as in just after you'd posted the thread- with this since I only saw imgur's overloaded page and assumed you'd got bored of working at college and had spammed imgur or something.

Heh, and I was just raging to the library clerk about the shitty wireless dropping on me every minute, making it impossible to do anything online. Thankfully they gave me an ethernet cable so now it's fine.

Also, when I used to be in halls, I couldn't use Steam nor most applications since the uni's proxy was so tight (yeah, tight's not always good). Nowadays I can do all of that, weirdly.

My college has nothing blocked except porn. Unfortunately. XD

But previously when I was at school, 6th form. YouTube was blocked and nearly every forum website in the planet. We couldn't even Google search for the word analysis because it had the word 'anal' in it. :/

I'm surprised that a college would actually filter anything. I'm even more surprised that's Orange doing the filtering.

Be happy, that it's only your college instead of your country ^^

Not reeeeeally comparable.. Especially when the blocked keyword definitely isn't anything to do with work ;) Am surprised 'forum' isn't a blocked keyword though, that's a common one.

Schools get in serious trouble if students get to anything dodgy using their systems - not just locally but if questionable pages are accessed at all, by student or staff, it gets flagged and the school gets a phone call. They don't have the staff to handle things flexibly like I would so they pick LOCK DOWN ALL THE THINGS instead. Plus if even the most pointless and unfun flash game ever makes it through the filter, you'll find entire classrooms of kids playing it instead of work -_- Usually sixth form get a lighter set of filters but maybe not in your case.

(Broke my heart to have to tell kids to stop playing a perfect rendition of DOOM in flash during lunchtimes, I was playing that when I was their age but it's got a 15 rating and tends to gather an audience..)

As the filtering systems are linked it might not even be your school that's added the keyword - and yeah there are some hilariously badly-added keywords, by people who don't understand pattern matching.. Stuff like YouTube is both because you can't filter by what's IN the video (and students can easily upload videos from home of any kind), but also for bandwidth reasons if you're at a less well-off college. Even some teachers have to be slapped for using YT like a radio station all day long -_-

My college didn't filter anything but porn = suspension. I think this is the better method.

no, is not "just like china"...
my college don´t dilter a single thing, the computers are fucking full of CRAP, viruses spyware, etc... and they HAVE an anti-virus (well is NOD32, probably a fake version of that, because it do nothing)...
so yes, they are filtering things, is bad yes, but is not that bad (no even close from china) preffer that to 10 labs full infected PCs

Know how you feel, my old school used to block everything and anything, regardless of the actual content.

College try to block me every year... i just use an ssh tunnel as a proxy and a software like proxifier or proxycap to force apps to use the local proxy. Then they started blocking ports so i just find an open port each year, last year i was running my ssh server on port 443(https :P) and this year i'm running it on port 53(dns). any good hacker can turn a restricted network to his advantage.

Steam and Skype are blocked at my campus...