Anti-Bess Headquarters

Down With Bess!

Does your school have Internet access, but using the Bess filtering service on it? Are you ticked off about the whole system? Join us in our quest against Bess!

Things To Do

Our Complaints

The whole filtering process is a mess. All servers that offer free sites are automatically blocked in their entirety. The only way for people to see your sites is to request a page review for each and every page you want to go to. If you actually take the time to submit a site review and wait the two or three weeks it takes them to hand-review it, you can finally go on. Some sites they won't even unblock, due to "vulgar or obscene content". The interpretation of "vulgarity" or "obscenity" is based entirely on the staff that is reviewing it. If you somehow get past all this and your page is unblocked, don't even think about trying to sign the guestbook to the page if it has one. They won't unblock the tool that lets you add to the guestbook cuz it's part of the free-server which supports this "anybody can have a web page" approach.

If, anytime down the line, one of the clients of the Bess filtering service decides that your site is "vulgar", or "obscene", or disrupting the educational process, they can send a request to Bess to block your site AGAIN. Most of the Bess clients may not have a problem with your site, but if just one person decides that it's not what they want their students to be seeing, it's gone again. Such topics as music, games, and entertainment are frequently blocked by some teachers out at distant schools with sticks up their butts. Your site may contain no swearing, no vulgarity, but if it deals with the topic of bands or music someone may have it blocked. Even teachers themselves are unhappy with the service, claiming that some sites which are necessary for research on an entirely clean and educational topic are blocked, because they are located on "free site servers". Unfortunately, it's up to the board of education, not the teachers, to add or drop the filtering service. There is basically NOTHING the students or teachers can do to solve these problems! Bess is hindering our education and our freedoms! Something must be done!

Help Us Out!

We've been hearing stories that there are ways to get around Bess, but we can't seem to find them. If anybody has any knowledge of how to do this, please enter in the info thru the guestbook and we will formally post it on the page! Thanks!

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