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An Incredible Waste of Money no comments
I felt so tired this morning that I was groggy.
Running on probably four hours sleep – and maybe less – I wanted nothing more than to go back to bed. Such is the price of watching American football in the UK: it is on late at night, and if you watch it, you feel it on Monday morning.
But this was the NFC championship. This was the spectacular, the peculiar battle between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints. Last night, enthralled, I knew I could deal with the tiredness to watch this.
I picked up a paper, before I got on the train. The Times. Mostly to try and wake myself up, I think, but it’s nice to have something to do for twenty minutes or so. I leafed through it. And I was struck by one of the stories inside it. Apparently, our schools are planning to spend thousands of pounds a year to unfilter and re-filter You Tube.
Currently, it’s blocked at schools. You can’t go on it – there could be something offensive on there. But teachers want to use it as a tool to help children learn, because it’s wealth of videos can be helpful for that sort of thing. So they plan to unblock it, and spend all this money on ensuring there are no comments visible.
What?
Have they forgotten what it’s like to be a kid? You don’t care if you read something profane in a comment. In fact, if you do, you probably think it’s cool.
And if it’s blocked, you can just watch it or read it when you get home.
It just seems like an absurd waste of time and money. It seems so pointless. Haven’t we got better things to spend our money on than this? Give £10,000 to help Haiti … this You Tube censoring is just pathetic.