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Sunday, April 23, 2006


Every ISP, from AOL to your local library, has established policies as to what you can and can't do with their bandwidth. That's not censorship, that's a market reaction to limited recourses in accordance with community standards. But Del Mar College seems to have gone a bit too far. They've banned myspace.com from their servers.
Del Mar College students who want to surf their online social scene at MySpace.com will have to use computers outside the school's system.

The Corpus Christi community college blocked the site recently in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers. An investigation found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth, said August Alfonso, the school's chief of information and technology.
Personally, I'm sick of hearing about every aspect of myspace.com, but I'm not a 20 year old college student in Corpus Christi. I'm sure these kids pay a hefty "technology" fee to attend classes at Del Mar, and I'll bet internet access is part of that fee. The argument from the administration is that they have to ban this particular web site because it's the one website the students overwhelmingly want to look at! Make sense?



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