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YouTube Legal at BYU?The third most popular website on the internet has just been unblocked by Brigham Young University (BYU). YouTube has been blocked since Fall 2006. BYU blocked YouTube because students could access pornographic and adult content. They also claimed that BYU bandwidth should be used for academic purposes. YouTube uses much bandwidth, and in the University’s eyes, did not provide a good return of academic content. The change in policy was inevitable after the LDS church (who owns BYU) started its own YouTube channel on August 07, 2008. As the third most popular website on the internet, YouTube has great value. YouTube plays a large role in social media, as it is more popular than Facebook. Social media can be studied and applied on BYU campus in the YouTube context. Performing arts students can observe and learn from their peers across the world. People living on campus will get to see what YouTube is for the first time in their lives. This is a great step for the university. From me and my colleagues, thank you BYU for opening your eyes. How do you feel about YouTube being unblocked? 5 comments to YouTube Legal at BYU? |
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As a student who, between massive study sessions, needed a break to relax, youtube would have been fantastic. Actually, I always bypassed BYU’s firewall by setting up a private VPN from my home router so I could. From personal experience, I know that not all of the university’s bandwidth will be used for academic purposes (not even getting started on the on-campus housing who were held to the same content blocking), and I think this is a great step. No need to be commanded in all things.
The sometimes annoying steps of making a VPN tunnel out of campus are over for me. Youtube was the only thing that I cared about bypassing BYU’s network to view. Now I can show my awesome videos to everyone on campus!
Lookin cute and feelin cute
While I’m in strong opposition of anything that increases the risk of being exposed to Charlie the Unicorn, I guess a little YouTube on campus could help BYU students unwind between classes. The site is obviously something that is making a huge impact in the world today, so I think it’s important that students in the bubble are both aware and contributing to the “movement”.
Even as a former student I am shocked that a site as ubiquitous as YouTube would be blocked. Imagine all the poor saps living on campus that didn’t know about http tunneling.
So fellas, this is an important issue: how to I tap into BYU’s VPN to get ESPN 360 access at home? There is a slight, slight chance I could be granted an account with my campus job as a researcher, but is there any other way?