Krishnan presses on filter strength; Strickland describes blocking measures
Krishnan asks whether filters are strong enough to prevent students from circumventing YouTube blocks. Strickland describes using Google Admin Console for Chromebooks and agents on iPads to block access both at school and at home.
So they shouldn't be able to access it either in a Chromebook or a iPad at school or even at home because the filtering has an agent on the device that notices they're trying to get to that URL and will block it.
I'm very glad to hear that.
So is it your testimony today that no student will be able to access on their own laptop or on a school computer YouTube on their own volition in the school day?
That's correct.
And the filters in place, have we looked at those?
Because students are smart these days.
I've heard stories of them chatting over Google Docs.
They figured out things in ways that I have not thought of before.
So are we sure the filters are strong enough where they're able to not get around them and game the system, so to speak?
Yeah, as best we had Google and the Google Chromebook, which is the Google and Alphabet-owned YouTube, is the thing we can most tightly...
because there's something called the Google Admin Console.
And from that, we can easily block things that are on a Google device.
Took a little bit of extra work to do it on an iPad that comes through our filtering, what happens both at the network level and an agent that's actually installed in every device that allows it to happen both at home and at school.
So I think we've got it covered.
If we find reports or start hearing about workarounds, we're going to go after that strongly because we agree that this is a good time to stop that.