doubt-it dept
Mon, Apr 24th 2006 2:49pm
Joseph Weisenthal
There have been plenty of stories of schools worrying about MySpace and banning students from accessing the site. Their concerns are well documented, but a community college in Texas has come up with a new reason to ban it; they claim that MySpace is a bandwidth hog, slowing down the school s network. This is the same reason given by universities for banning file trading, though that actually involves the transfer of large files. Most likely, bans on file trading have more to do with the legal liability, while the MySpace ban is more of a pedantic way of controlling what students do online. The fact that this is a community college, likely having many adult students, makes it absurd that the administration feels the need to regulate their internet use. The school may be bolstered in their claims that MySpace is a bandwidth hog by the fact that some Apple retail stores are also banning the site, using the same excuse. But