My college ISP is doing some REAL strange (illegal??) crap...

[SmileyBoy]

OK, just for the record: Once in a while, I like to look at porno online. NOTHING ILLEGAL, mind you. I'm gonna stress that right now. First off, I'm not attracted to anything that could be illegal, and I always stay the course away from any pedophilia, besiality, etc. etc. It's just NORMAL, LEGAL porno that I look at. Also, I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING REMOTELY porn-related on my hard drive. I do a regular daily house-cleaning of my C drive every day, so I should know. Also, I'm a few days away from being 21 years old, so it's not anything that has to do with being underage. I'm being completely serious here, so bear with me.

So, I read the campus internet contract agreement, and there was no mention of pornography in the whole contract. Well, I'm assuming so, because a vast majority of college males (like me) like to look at porn, and I figure that if they try to stop it, they won't be able to enforce it. So I go online this past week, and I decide to look for something that floats my boat. after about 10 minutes, I get a couple of full screen pop-up messages that have the name of my college's internet office on them, and say "your computer is being tracked", and "ALERT!! You have been found accessing porn sites!!!" So I quickly log off the internet, and do a house-cleaning of my C drive. Later that week, I look at a little adult entertainment for a little bit, thinking that the last time it was something else. And the SAME FUCKING MESSAGE appears. I thought they wouldn't GIVE A BLOODY SHIT if I was looking at porno!!

I'll give you a reference to think about: In Al Franken's latest book, he sent one of his student helpers disguised as a good friend of his (as a prank) to go personally apply for enrollment at the uber-conservative Bob Jones University. Franken tells about how the university constantly monitors the internet habits of its students, and tracks whether or not their looking for porno or not. And Al Franken explained it in a way that it was something that a college wasn't supposed to do, in terms of infringing on civil liberties. So, I'm assuming that of course a fundie christian school would do that, but not a secular, public land-grant university. It wouldn't be a good idea for North Dakota State to be doing this, Right??

If most public libraries in this country are still not banning its patrons from looking at pornography, why in the HELL would NDSU be warning me about looking at porno on my OWN FREAKIN PERSONAL COMPUTER in my dorm room???

I need some help and/or ideas. Thank you.