The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities has claimed that students installing third-party apps on their school supplied laptops are slowing down their computers following complaints that the laptops were so slow they were useless. As Anonymous has come to expect from the NSW DEC this is a load of bullshit.
The laptops being provided to students by the DEC aren't actually laptops but netbooks, their smaller less powerful version. The DEC expects these to run apps such as Photoshop and Premiere when these are designed for more powerful computers. Netbooks are designed for basic use, not multimedia work like this. You would be waiting for hours to make an Anonymous video to put on Youtube.
The NSW DEC controls its computers so much that students and teachers are limited in what they can view, with sites that question the DEC being blocked as well as sites which are politically controversial. Censoring the Internet is the ultimate form of censorship and it is being used by the DEC.
The DEC also forgets to tell the media that each computer is supplied with software that allows the department to see what its users are doing, potentially slowing it down more.
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