Educational Institutions
The majority of Schools, Colleges and Universities use internet filters to block access to sites which contain Adult material, Gambling and sites which contain malware. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are often filtered by certain schools. Many students often use proxy servers to bypass this. Schools often censor pupils' Internet access in order to offer some protection against various perceived threats such as cyber-bullying and the risk of grooming by pedophiles; as well as to maintain pupil attention during IT lessons.
Read more about this topic: Internet Censorship In The United Kingdom
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“If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)
“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails—aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)