Texas school bans MySpace
p2p news / p2pnet: Students at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, have been banned from surfing Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace.com
MySpace.com has frequently been cited as a popular spot for sexual predators, but that’s not why Del Mar has taken the action.
An investigation, "found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth," the Associated Press says, quoting August Alfonso, the school’s chief of information and technology, as saying 40% of daily Internet traffic at the college involved the site.
"This was more about us being able to offer Web-based instruction, and MySpace.com was slowing everything down," AP has Del Mar president Carlos Garcia saying.
Also See:
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Associated Press – Texas Community College Bans MySpace.com, April 24, 2006
April 25th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Myspace = waste of time and bandwidth in places of education.
April 25th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
myspace is a complete waste of time. it should be banned completely the site should be hacked and ddosed! such sites cannot exist as they destroy people and everything else. The creator must be jailed for life for such a crime. We cannot let such sites ever exist!
April 25th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
April 26th, 2006 at 12:38 am
What a bunch of idiots running the school. And it sounds like they are lying or they are stupid in regards to the bandwidth excuse.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:49 am
Glad to know your the be all end all authority on what is right and useful and what is wrong and wasteful.
April 27th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
In my High School sites like Myspace.com and Live Journal are firewalled and you are not able to access them.