Schools use web filters to limit what students can see online.

Originally intended to block obscene content, they now prevent students from learning. Students explain, in their own words: https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/five-high-schoolers-explain-how-web-filters-inhibit-their-learning-and-safety

@themarkup that's why even back when I was in school everyone who wasn't #TechIlliterate booted into #Tails or some other #Linux and thus trivially circumvented any #CintentFiltering!

@kkarhan @themarkup
That’s great, but vulnerable kids who need online community and resources may not be tech literate for all sorts of reasons — and shouldn’t just be abandoned because of it.

@EFA @themarkup OFC not.

In fact, I blame #schools for this hamfisted approach, as the correct way to deal with kids doing unwanted stuff is having some serious talk, teching them proper #TechLiteracy and not using #Filtering garbage that has no legitimate reason to exist in the first place...

@kkarhan @themarkup
But there are so many moral panics, and there is so little time and reaources…