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I did not know about those. Thanks for alerting me. I deleted the posts. But if it is the case that this is the main driver then they should have reached out to
by amasad 6y ago
I did not know about those. Thanks for alerting me. I deleted the posts. But if it is the case that this is the main driver then they should have reached out to us instead of blanket blocking.
- ziddoap 6y agoHow long do you think it would take for various schools IT departments (usually incredibly understaffed) to reach out to every single website where they found content that doesn't fit the school board's policies and request a take down? How many websites would, at the request of Random School X, would remove posts just to comply? Simply so a few hundred students can use the school network rather than a phone, home computer, etc.? This seems like a ridiculous request. From the school IT point of view, block it and move on is much more realistic.
- HenryBemis 6y agoI just saw your comment (but I will still keep my other comment for people to see). Basically, AFTER you get caught, you delete the evidence and leave a 404? How about edit/censor to write: "we do not condone these actions - bypassing school security, and thus we remove this harmful content"?
- amasad 6y agoThey're basic tutorials on how to build proxies. Some of them are pretty neat technically actually and pains me to delete them. But we also don't condone use-cases like this. If I had more time I will build the infra for taking down posts and leaving a message like you suggest.
- grawprog 6y agoI'm not sure deleting the posts is going to solve the problem. There was a whole google page full of threads on this. I picked the top three results... You can't just delete some forum posts and expect the knowledge to go away. They'll just post it somewhere else.
- amasad 6y agoI mean we're a general purpose computing platform, if we allow you to build and host a website, of course it's possible to build a proxy. It's essentially impossible to stop that. However, I doubt that's the main driver for the blocking.
- grawprog 6y agoHave you tried actually contacting any school boards to ask why you're being blocked?
- amasad 6y agoWe are on the phones since the start of the week with no avail. It sounds like there are some shadowy IT providers that are hard to reach that are doing all the blocking and locking down of machines. Someone else on this thread mentioned one such provider.
- grawprog 6y agoFair enough. Honestly,.i do hope you guys can find a solution that allows students to keep using your tools. I would have loved something like that back when i was in school. I can see why schools may not like it though, apart from just the proxy stuff, i imagine kids use repl.it a lot to do things their teachers would find unproductive. Just thinking back to the kind of crap i would do on school computers even back in the early 2000's, i can't even imagine what kinds of things kids have come up with these days to fuck around on a computer instead of doing their work. Like i said though, i think repl.it can be a great tool and resource for students, it seems like it may have to involve more direct effort from you guys in working with schools to make this happen though.