Ah, I've made it to "Foe" level! I didn't claim to be disinterested. In fact, posting a piece means I'm clearly interested. Prior to working where I work, I worked for the security community - and don't assume it was all White Hat. And also don't assume I was always PRO security measures. In fact, I'm okay with what I posted and what you posted in retaliation (sarcasm bold Helvetica typeface the whole thing). Thought we were debating, discussing, mulling over, but no, we're hating. Sad to see. I'm too tired to be scared of flaming.

Osgeld and theArtificial have great points! I believe that we've become a culture of folks that have a pretty large entitlement complex - not "entitled to have freedom" but entitled to always be able to do whatever we want wherever we want with other people's resources. I work for an organization whose mission it is to help enable social media freedom while still protecting companies from malware, lawsuits, personal misuse of company online resources, etc. If the university had our controls in place, their blocking wouldn't be arbitrary, and their policies could be more uniform and better understood. Unfortunately users wouldn't see it that way, they would attach themselves to the Orwellian idea of it all...