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In Schools, a Firewall That Works Too Well. Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online.

In Schools, a Firewall That Works Too Well

Unfortunately, that group is teachers. Content filters are knee-high fences around the Internet: They may trip up older folks, but teens leap right over. Walk the halls of a public school, and students will readily share tips for evading filters, some of which would be good work-arounds for the Great Firewall of China. Recently, a student from Hingham, Mass., pointed me toward the Facebook group "How to access Facebook from school," which has 187,000 members. Those members receive strategies on simple methods to surf freely at school.

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