I'm sure no Yale student has ever heard of tethering and that blocking the site on the Yale network will effectively prevent very smart students from reaching this website.
You would think that the Yale administrators would know better than this.
You would think that the Yale administrators would know better than this.
This public shaming will be received as insulting and provocative, and the deans will attempt to assert their dominance through the courts.
Preventing students from accessing the website is neither the goal nor is it a desired side-effect -- the goal is intimidation and generating evidence of wrong-doing. It's a game of poker for the administration and they showed their hand, and now they're waiting for the OP to call their bluff. This will not end well.