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I think, in a school that has courses like psychology, sociology, Media studies and other major A levels that involve the research major sites that are widely banned should simply not ban these sites; there is really no reason too. Even if they banned them for younger students, or just limited all internet access during class work time (because one justification for banning some sites would be distractions). None of these sites contain offensive content primarily and even then "intelligent" content filters would filter individual pages within a site, and not he entire site.
Sites include:
Google Video
YouTube
MySpace
Digg
Daniweb (really useful for IT but they seem to ban all forums now!)
MSN Web messenger
We all use Web based CGI/PHP proxies anyway or change the proxy server to the other proxy or a public open proxy by installing firefox which has no restrictions, which bypasses the filterting servers anyway, but its the fact they ban them that counts.
Any to add to the list in your school or college, or even workplace?