Ban Blocksi from Schools
Ban Blocksi from Schools
The Issue
We need to ban Blocksi from schools all across Utah. It blocks so many sites for no reason, which can lead to sites that you need to access for schoolwork. The only sites it's been able to block are the ones that are actually necessary, it hasn't been able to block any game sites, the teacher's had to block them. I was in class earlier and Blocksi blocked the site that we use for coding, causing almost everybody in the class to lose a lot of the progress they'd made because they didn't have it saved. (this is about 7 minutes after I wrote this part, apparently Blocksi's also blocked the thing we use to check grades) Why do we even have this installed? On Google, it has a 1.2 star average, and I don't know how to find the version I found last year again on the Chrome Web Store (update: I found it, it's the link at the bottom), but it had somewhere around 300 reviews and a 1.1 star average.
Furthermore, many times, it's been activated when I was at home, sometimes even in the evening, five hours after school ended. It even put me into that "Heads Up!" thing one time. You know what's really strange? Blocksi has access to your camera and your microphone. This means that if you have a teacher who's.. not a very good person and creepy, they could look through your camera and hear what you're saying through your microphone before or after school. I don't know much about the law, but I'm pretty sure that breaks the Fourth Amendment.
Blocksi's blocked Google for me before, making it impossible to do any of my assignments. For an app that's supposed to help students focus and make them complete more work, it's doing a pretty horrible job at it. It might even block this site soon.
Please. If you're a teacher, just don't install Blocksi. It will make it so much harder for the students to learn and focus. And for the people who don't have Blocksi at school, you are extremely lucky.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. (I promise this wasn't made by AI)
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The Issue
We need to ban Blocksi from schools all across Utah. It blocks so many sites for no reason, which can lead to sites that you need to access for schoolwork. The only sites it's been able to block are the ones that are actually necessary, it hasn't been able to block any game sites, the teacher's had to block them. I was in class earlier and Blocksi blocked the site that we use for coding, causing almost everybody in the class to lose a lot of the progress they'd made because they didn't have it saved. (this is about 7 minutes after I wrote this part, apparently Blocksi's also blocked the thing we use to check grades) Why do we even have this installed? On Google, it has a 1.2 star average, and I don't know how to find the version I found last year again on the Chrome Web Store (update: I found it, it's the link at the bottom), but it had somewhere around 300 reviews and a 1.1 star average.
Furthermore, many times, it's been activated when I was at home, sometimes even in the evening, five hours after school ended. It even put me into that "Heads Up!" thing one time. You know what's really strange? Blocksi has access to your camera and your microphone. This means that if you have a teacher who's.. not a very good person and creepy, they could look through your camera and hear what you're saying through your microphone before or after school. I don't know much about the law, but I'm pretty sure that breaks the Fourth Amendment.
Blocksi's blocked Google for me before, making it impossible to do any of my assignments. For an app that's supposed to help students focus and make them complete more work, it's doing a pretty horrible job at it. It might even block this site soon.
Please. If you're a teacher, just don't install Blocksi. It will make it so much harder for the students to learn and focus. And for the people who don't have Blocksi at school, you are extremely lucky.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. (I promise this wasn't made by AI)
the signing isn't working :<
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Petition created on September 18, 2025