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Protecting Student Users

School’s fund programs to filter out select content to prevent students from being exposed to harmful material . Network administrators are hired to oversee material that is classified as inappropriate and make sure it remains filtered out of the school’s network . Filtered material is determined by the institution. Content that goes against school policy is blocked and prohibited from being accessed by the student user .

Issues and Solutions

Criticism

In the journal of School Internet Safety More Than 'Block It to Stop It 3 criticism points argued by authors Annette Melgosa and Rudy Scott.

• “Filters tend to be either under- or over-aggressive failing to block objectionable content (under-filtering) or preventing access to acceptable sites (over-filtering)” . - Annette Melgosa and Rudy Scott

• “Studies show that school personnel often see cyber safety instruction as unnecessary because the school has locked down its computer systems” . -Annette Melgosa and Rudy Scott

• Three This myopic attitude nearly guarantees that students will fail to learn proper Internet behaviors and will therefore be at risk as soon as they log off of the school network and log on to their personal computer or smart phone that has no filter nor adult supervision . -Annette Melgosa and Rudy Scott

In the Journal article Online Contribution Practices in Countries that Engage in Internet Blocking and Censorship it was argued Some countries use internet blocks because certain topics are viewed as sensitive or seen as inappropriate . – Irina Shklovski and Nalini P. Kotmraju

In the journal article, Internet Censorship and Control, it said “Sometimes, over-blocking is an attempt to avoid criticism, but other times it proves to be a mistake resulting from overzealous interpretations of rules” . – Steven J. Murdoch and Hal Roberts

The journal article, Internet Filters Block Health Information, it said “The blocking of health information increases sharply when Internet filters are set at higher levels, while access to pornographic content decreases only marginally according to a report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation” . – Kathie Felix

Suggested Solutions

In the journal of School Internet Safety More Than 'Block It to Stop It 3 Solution points were suggested by authors Annette Melgosa and Rudy Scott.

• An Internet safety policy with clear rules, a student contract, and consequences for failure to comply.
• Filters
• A school-wide Internet safety curriculum

Due to the controversy and criticism surrounding internet blocking, it was suggested that if students follow the C3 framework by the ETPRO (Educational Technology Policy Research and Outreach) there wouldn’t be much of a need for an internet block in schools .The Educational Technology Policy Research and Outreach suggests that through Cyber security, Cyber safety and Cyber ethics, students would be more educationally aware about Cyberspace .

International Blocks

Internet Blocking Countries

China

China asked ISP’s to sign a pledge asking the content creators to self-filter themselves. The rest is determined by government.The Chinese government uses an internet filtering software’s in order to decide what gets filtered out of their cyberspace .

Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology, changed to the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in 1985, became responsible for determining what is allowed and blocked on internet websites in Saudi Arabia . The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology is the place where all website domain names are registered. It plays a major role in filtering content .Citizens of Saudi Arabia are encouraged to inform the institution of websites that should be blocked, banned or unblocked .

Egypt

Egypt in 2011, the Egyptians filtered out 93 percent of internet addresses . Egyptian authorities ordered all telecommunication providers to block and restrict all internet access to the people .