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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Student Discovers School Filtering Out Conservative Web Results, Leaving Liberal Sites Untouched After a Connecticut high school student was given an assignment to discuss the merits of gun control, he learned that it was going to be difficult to get both sides of the argument while on campus. That’s because his school restricted access to conservative information outlets, according to student Andrew Lampart. Lampart told reporters that he started doing research for a gun-related assignment in his Nonnewaug High School “Law and You” class only to find that the National Rifle Association, The Blaze, the Connecticut GOP website, the website for a Sarah Palin PAC, Town Hall , RedState and other conservative portals of information were blocked by his school’s SonicWALL firewall. “I used my study hall to research gun control facts and statistics. That is when I noticed that most of the pro-second amendment websites were blocked, while the sites that were in favor of gun control generally were not,” Lampart told Campus Reform. That’s right, Moms Demand Action, Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton’s website, the Center for American Progress website, the Connecticut Democratic Party’s website and other left-leaning information outlets were left unblocked. “They’re trying to, in my opinion, shelter us from what’s actually going on around the country and around the world by blocking these web sites. It should be the other way around. The web sites should be unblocked so that students can get different viewpoints from different sides of each argument,” Lampart told FoxCT. Lampart said that he notified his school district’s superintendent of the problem but nothing was done. On Monday, he took his concerns to the local school board. Meanwhile, Campus Reform offers some insight about who might be behind the inappropriate censorship: In an email to Campus Reform, Paul Ciotti, Director of Network Operations and Technology for Connecticut Region 14 schools said “[i]t is not uncommon for websites to be improperly categorized, resulting in a blocked website that should be accessible or unblocked website that should be blocked.” “However, SonicWall’s Content Filtering Service allows administrators as well as end users the ability to request that a website be re-categorized to a more suitable group,” Ciotti said. It’s unclear whether Lampart’s high school plans to address the problem. Of course, this leaves us with one burning question: How many other schools throughout the Nation have a similarly indoctrinating web-filtering strategy? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Lorie Meacham (#0)
probably all of them. 45 communist goals for america. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
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