Its about what students do with the bandwidth they get not what universities do. The only thing universities can do is provide that bandwidth to the students with some restrictions. Which almost every college in India does. They block Facebook, Torrents,etc. What else can a college do to regulate Internet use?
What makes you think that students in US don't use internet to watch porn or movies? What makes you think that they are completely dedicated to their studies & use Internet for educational purposes? What use did you make of the bandwidth that was provided to you when you were in college?
Hang on Hang on. For a start the bandwidth is provided to the Universities to facilitate the education for the students and provide them a platform for innovation, inventions, contributing to documentation, coding, etc. Secondly Universities also involve in research for solving complex problems and their infrastructure can be used for various scientific research among many other such things like mirrors to Linux repositories, hosting open source projects, giving students entrepreneurship oppurtunities and what not. That doesn't mean students should not use for leisure activities, but one should know where the priorities lie. And oh it's the Universities' bandwidth not the students' personal property or anything.
Never once did I assert US students didn't use bandwidth for their leisure. My only assertion is that people's lack of understanding of the fact that the bandwidth is provided for productive use and not for jerking around with porn and pirated movies. The first thing which comes to Indian students in a Technology forum who should definitely understand a better use for all those stuff, but they are instead obsessed with idiotic stuff. 0% innovation, 100% idioticy rather than say 10% innovation, 90% idioticty.
Colleges are correct by blocking Facebook, Twitter, and other such junk sites. Buy your own bandwidth for your own leisure. I don't agree with blocking ports (apart from torrents), since those would stifle innovation, and nor youtube (many educational and useful videos). But the idea is clear and correct.
Though I am not sure what is to be gained by any kind of personal/local discussion here, but whatever...
As for my college is concerned, I am not a hostler and secondly our hostlers got a bandwidth of square root of zero. But tell you what they do have access to movies, music, pron, software what not. What do they lack is actual platform and environment to develop their skills and even an oppurtunity to actually gain interest in science and technology.
So it comes to this, the students will gain access to leisure activities in spite of zero bandwidth provided to them and in spite of this the obsession with those very stuff which they already have frankly portrays the naivity and idioticity very much stereotyped with an Indian student (and there comes the term Yindan).
Don't joke lol.
