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…
@EFA @kkarhan @themarkup One of the annoying things about moral panics is that they don't seem to learn from past ones. They act as if whatever new thing is some never before seen thing.
