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Internet Filtering
Hanover School District filters and controls the web content that is accessible in the schools. Websites that are blocked and not made available to the students must contain one or more of the following (click a topic for more details if not expanded):
- Adult/Sexually Explicit
- Sexually-oriented or erotic full or partial nudity
- Depictions or images of sexual acts, including animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner
- Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts
- Sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics
- Bondage, fetishes, genital piercing
- Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos
- Adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs
- Explicit cartoons and animation
- Note: We do not include sites regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted diseases (except in graphic examples).
- Chat
- Criminal Skills
- Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts such as phone, service theft, evading law enforcement, lock-picking, fraud, plagiarism/cheating, and burglary techniques
- Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco
- Recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances, including alcohol, for purposes other than industrial usage Glamorizing, encouraging, or instructing on the use of or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors
- Alcohol and tobacco manufacturers' commercial Web sites
- Information on "legal highs": glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances
- Distributing alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco free or for a charge
- Displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia
- Note: We do not include sites that discuss medicinal drug use or public debate on the issue of legalizing certain drugs. Nor do we include sites sponsored by a public or private agency that provides educational information on drug use.
- Gambling
- Online gambling or lottery web sites that invite the use of real money
- Information or advice for placing wagers, participating in lotteries, or gambling real money, or running numbers
- Virtual casinos and offshore gambling ventures
- Virtual sports leagues and sports picks and betting pools
- Glamour & Intimate Apparel
- Lingerie, negligee or swimwear modeling
- Model fan pages; fitness models/sports celebrities
- Fashion or glamour magazines online; clothing catalogs
- Beauty and cosmetics
- Modeling information and agencies
- Hacking
- Promotion, instruction, or advice on the questionable or illegal use of equipment and/or software for purpose of hacking passwords, creating viruses, gaining access to other computers and/or computerized communication systems.
- Sites that provide work-arounds for our filtering software
- Cracked software
- Pirated software download sites
- Pirated multimedia download sites
- Hate Speech
- Advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation
- Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation
- Holocaust revisionist/denial sites
- Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang* or cult**
- Militancy, extremist
- Note: We do not include news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).
*A gang is defined as: a group whose primary activities are the commission of felonious criminal acts, which has a common name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in criminal activity in the name of the group.
**A cult is defined as: a group whose followers have been deceptively and manipulatively recruited and retained through undue influence
- Violence
- Portraying, describing or advocating physical assault against humans, animals, or institutions
- Depictions of torture, mutilation, gore, or horrific death
- Advocating suicide or self-mutilation
- Instructions, recipes or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices
- Excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation
- Note: We do not block news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).
- Weapons
- Online purchasing or ordering information, including lists of prices and dealer locations
- Any page or site predominantly containing, or providing links to, content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
- Displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
- Weapons are defined as something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy.
- Note: Weapons are defined as something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy.
- P2P File-Sharing Programs
- Programs such as Kazaa, Bearshare, Limewire, Audio Galaxy, Napster, Grokster are blocked and their services are limited or completely rendered useless by our servers, due to the nature of these programs being able to download pirated software, music, movies, and adult content.
- Note: These programs also cause a security risk of being able to download a virus, and slow the internet connection for the schools.
- Instant Messaging
- Instant Messaging and chat programs
1. AIM (Aol Instant Messenger)-BLOCKED
2. Microsoft Instant Messenger - BLOCKED
3. iChat (Apples Instant Messenger) - BLOCKED
4. ICQ (Internet Relay Chat) - BLOCKED
5. Yahoo Instant Messenger - BLOCKED
6. Limewire Chat - BLOCKED
7. Napster chat - BLOCKED
Web Posting
All web postings or submissions to the hanover schools website, is submitted thru the Administration and Webmaster for approval. Neither students or staff has direct permission to submit items to the schools website with out prior approval.
Other Web Sites for public use
Free or close to it, web hosting sites.
Note: These sites are suggestion, they are not supported by hanoverschools.
FreeServers
Geocities
Free Web Space
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File Sharing & P2P
Hanover Schools does not support or allow the use of P2P Filesharing Programs. What is a P2P Filesharing Program? Programs such as
1. Kazaa
2. Limewire
3. Bearshare
4. Napster
5. Grokster
6. Opennap
7. Audio Galaxy
8. Etc.
What is a P2P File sharing program and why is it not allowed in the schools?
P2P File sharing programs, are programs that allow a individual to search and find files such as copyrighted material like music, movies, pictures, adult content, and pirated software. Why are they blocked? Simple, these services can allow a individual to download adult content, programs, and viruses that are not allowed in a school environment.
P2P File sharing programs can also dramatically decrease the bandwidth (Internet Speed) that the schools can access the Internet. The Internet bandwidth is meant to be used by everyone equally with in the schools. It is not meant to be used for a single individuals private use only.
Please be kind, and respect others. If you are using one of these programs in the schools, it is strongly recommended that you stop. Use of these programs is strongly forbidden.
Email Accounts
Email Accounts (http://mail.hanoverschools.org)
Email accounts used by the Hanover Schools Staff are provided by
Merrimack Education (www.mec.net). Email Accounts are provided to staff members on a approval basis only. Accounts are given to staff members, on approval of the superintendent.
The email server is web based, and all emails coming thru our website are scanned for spam mail, and viruses.
Free email systems on the Internet
Hotmail - Free web based email account
Yahoo! Mail - Free web based email account
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