NIT Warangal Going Overboard!?

So now once again, our internet is being monitored (well, it has always been, but now, even more so). The situation is not as bad as the catastrophic day last week. Yet it’s appalling.

In order to look more professional, they have created an error page this time with two major error messages :
• Weighted phrase limit exceeded.
• Banned extension: .exe

Now I really don’t know what the first one means – I suppose they are banning sites which many people visit and which they feel do not fall into the category they call educational sites. The second one is obvious – so now we are prohibited from even downloading new softwares, updating our antivirus et al.

If it was some service they are offering free of cost. No would’ve really bothered. But they take thousands of bucks from us in the name of internet fees and now this. When colleges like IITs don’t bother regulating the internet connections given to their students, I wonder why NITW is trying so badly to establish its authority over its students. If some regulation was really needed, they can register the mac addresses of each computer so that they can monitor each student personally and take specific actions in case someone acts unethically. But no – instead they block the net given to all students just coz of one odd nutter in the college.

I hope someone can knock some sense into this orthodox sect of people. They need to understand that the more they try to stop someone from doing something, the more they’re instigating them to do that very thing. I think Harry Potter fans might remember Hermione’s words from the Order of the Phoenix when Umbridge banned Quibbler in Hogwarts, “If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!”

The human brain acts funnily – they better understand that before they start to overdo things, which they feel are long overdue (I like the combination of overdo and overdue – sounds nice nay)! What they’re trying to do is not wrong, but how they’re trying to do is. I guess they better do a viability check before implementing their plans of action – or else it would be a repeat of last week’s fiasco.

If it happens I guess might quote Bernard M. Baruch, “Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”

Or even Mary Beard, “Study without action is futile. Action without study is fatal.”