Social Networking Sites Under Attack At The State Level
from the think-of-the-children dept
Fortunately, the ill-conceived DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act), which would have prevented schools and libraries that take federal money from allowing access to social networking sites, died in the Senate last year after passing the House. Unfortunately, scaremongering about social networking is alive and well at the state level. In Illinois, a state senator is pushing the Social Networking Web site Prohibition Act (via Slashdot), which looks almost identical to the DOPA. Of course laws such as these are completely silly. It's easy for kids to find a way around filters, or they'll just get online at home to look at at forbidden sites. What's worse is that because filters don't work well, the law, if passed, would block access to plenty of sites that are fine, or even useful, for kids. Of course, there's always an election coming up, so there's always a need to pass laws that "protect the children".Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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give them an inch
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Better solution for the funds...
Children respond better to education about using something properly than they do to being banned from using in the first place.
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Our school system spends more money on sending home your-childs-weight-alert report cards, making it mandantory to get cervical cancer shots that you can only contract from being sexually active (to as young as 12!) and teaching all the rest of the PC jargon. It is becoming more and more apparent what is deemed important. Sports, fashion and political correctness is the crux of our children's education now. Reading, writing and mathematics can take a back seat cuz you don't need 'em! As long as you can look right, kick a football and talk in circles and never really say anything you can buy a computer or software to do the rest!
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Politicians fuck kids. End of discussion.
Have any of you followed the dark saga of the Mark Foley scandal, and are you aware of what kind of laws that guy was behind?
Also, google the "franklin scandal".
Let's not take any of these laws too seriously, or dwell on them for too long, ok?
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Remember...
George Santayana
...unfortunately, They will take the rest of us along on this nightmareish hell-ride...
Watch, Listen, Learn
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