Banning Myspace - Comments Page 2

All those websites that are listed above to go to myspace.com does not work for me. I hope there is a that will definitely get me to myspace.com, does anybody know of a website that will do that. I am asking because I do not.

Mannnn watever myspace aint that bad, everyone thinks it is BUT its NOTTT!! The only way its bad is if someone abuses it by talking to someone they dont know. you can set your profile to private. DUh! I have a myspace and my parents know i have one but they dont care cause they know i want abuse it and mine is private, so i think Banning myspace is sooo freackin GAYYY!!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Does Myspace offer spelling, grammar and punctuation lessons?

Wow, tough act to follow. Anyway. I totally agree with the Network Administrator (Ace; August 28, 2006 07:55 PM). As an IT student who's currently studying networking, my college has experienced severe bandwith problems (over the past two weeks) to the point that my Programming and A+ classes couldn't cover half the material. The main culprits were other students were downloading material on MySpace and music-related sites.

Besides, I though the purpose for school is to learn, not to learn to illegally hack or break into the network, which of course, cause numerous security issues.

To Jack (November 21, 2006 01:07 PM): Bottom line is: Neither p**n or MySpace are school-related, thus it's hard to justify one from the other.

It's a school's prerogative to set up an internet usage policy. They have every right to mandate use of their network resources. If kids don't like that, chalk it down to valuable experience for work - most jobs that have internet access also have internet policies in place.

Secondly, its not a librarians job to babysit kids who would otherwise be blocked from accessing sites at school or home. While Librarians are there to help you find reading resources, they also have to make sure the resources are available to everyone. If you want to socialize, you should do it in private, not using a system dedicated for academic use.

And finally, kids who claim their constitutional rights are being taken away, also seem to forget those rights are extended to legally -aged citizens of the US. If you're a minor, you have no rights. Your parents and other adults charged with your welfare have the right to set limitations for your protection and to insure the safety of everyone. If you don't like that - tough. When you're 18, you can petition congress to change the age laws. Thank you.

Whats so wrong with myspace or anything else to acually block it? At my school, almost everything is blocked; from myspace to music...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Most likely excessive bandwidth demands from those sites is the real problem...

i dont know what you people are talking about but myspace can keep you in touch with friends family and you can reconnect with people you havent seen in a long time so if you want to block myspace or ban it forever its not going to work

Use a proxy. This one is easy to use: http://www.mysecureisp.com

Best solution is a proxy, but until recently there was no way they would work since Myspace changed somethin. Try to use: http://www.proxymy.com to work

can u give me internet adresses so i can get onto myspace

if you want to get on myspace at work, college or school go here www.anysite4u.com

There is also another site to unblock myspace, unblock bebo, unblock profilenation, unblock websites here: http://www.theschoolking.com

Thanks for the info. I found your site to be most helpful in my research for an editorial I'm writing for my college english course. For the record, I think that banning social networks in schools (esp. in colleges) is agonizing, but extremely necessary.

I know firsthand what it's like to be an irresponsible student glued to my Myspace page, and I can tell you that $20,000 in college tuition is not worth countless hours spent "keeping in touch" with 500 "friends" you've never even met.

well if you ask me i luv myspace and its really fun so i think we should have myspace at school if u feel me im not a crazy bttch but i thimnk we shoulod have myspace.

EDITOR'S NOTE: So eloquently stated...

I guess I see where the schools are coming from. I mean your supposed to go to school to learn, not to talk to your 500 "friends", who are most likly some kind of pervert.

Now sure, I'm a typical teenager and go on myspace. The thing is, I know that I should go on it at home, not at school when I am supposed to do my work.

Do these schools banning myspace also block the other online communities such as AOL, or is this a plot to limit your freedoms to appropriate time and places. To use an justification like online predators as a reason for banning myspace, or anything else, is like commiting yourself to a bomb shelter or a padded room free of societies and life wonders. We are social beings and starve for interaction, and do deserve a free will to express ourselves, and to see the expressions of others.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Fine, nobody is stopping you from interacting, or expressing yourself. Just don't do it in school, where others are paying for you to be educated.

My school has blocked email, aim, myspace, livejournal and everyother blog in the NATION! and ALL of these proxies! there has to be something against this somewhere!! what about a protest or something??

EDITOR'S NOTE: Could it be... they want you to learn??

Some of these web sites worked for me, but most of them were blocked. The one I recomend is www.anysite4u.com this worked for me but then the next day i tried again and it was blocked so use at your own risk cause im sure your school's have consequences just like mine

myspace is fun and u get to keep n touch with your friends...they should not ban Myspace even at home...noone can control what we do at home except our parents...

Myspace is not that bad for people that know hwo to use it right,but peeple that give out there information and talk to people that they don't know is the worst thing that you can do. Myspce is good for comunication but not for giving out personal information you should never talk to anyone that you don't know, although anyone can get a hold of someones picture place it on there myspace and say that there someone that their not so you should always ask a question that only they would know, and then call them to make sure although they have made voice changers so that they could sound like that person so just be carful about what you put and say on myspace

Ok, I am not going to claim to be an expert in interpreting the law, or in interpreting the Constitution but let me present a, perhaps, different view.

Schools have the legal authority to control any traffic across their network. Since they own the network and pay for it they get to decide what the rules are. On a technical note, myspace or any site on the web can be used as both a place to slander, libel, deploy comprimising software,... all of which is illegal.

For those that want to spend time trying to get around the "blocks" think about this: your actions could be seen as circumventing security measures and could get you in big trouble.

For those that think that the bans are unfair, think about this: The Internet is a pool of free-flowing information and as such information can be distributed around the globe in a heartbeat. Administrators and school officials have a legal obligation to protect students from abuse. This I speak from helping with a youth organisation. I have a legal responsibility to report abuse and if I don't I go to jail.

Think about this the next time you object to administrators banning myspace at home: They are doing what they can to protect you, as they are legally bound to do so.