Yet Another Politician Blaming Social Networks For Youth Violence
from the proof,-please? dept
A California state politician is pushing a totally useless "non-binding resolution" that would ask social networking sites to immediately takedown any "violent or explicit" videos that appear on their sites. How those sites would automatically know that the content is violent or explicit (or what is considered "acceptable" is unclear). Even better, the resolution would call on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to create a task force to "address the proliferation of violence on the Internet." Would that include "violence" such as that found in Schwarzenegger's movies, many of which can be found online? This whole thing seems like a witch hunt based on the faulty premise that somehow watching a violent clip on a website will somehow make the viewer violent, when actual research seems to suggest the opposite.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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premise
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Those people have existed for a long time, and will continue to exist no matter how many restrictions are placed on their online activities. In fact, restrictions would encourage them even more, with rules being like a red rag to a bull with those kinds of kids anyway...
It's also funny how there's talk of restricting online videos, yet any kid can buy Jackass on DVD if they want.
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freedom?
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Blame
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Most of the parents I know do exactly that. The ones that don't could give a shit about protecting thier children. Those 'protect the children' measures are aimed at get politicos good press from people who are grandparents, not parents. A huge bloc of our voters are older people who don't always grasp television, video games, and the Internet as well as thier younger counterparts, and they like to see things that 'protect' children from these menaces. Hence all of the 'protect the children' measures.
Oh yeah, plus there are a ton of religious extremists who think that anything that's violent or sexual should be illegal because it's morally 'wrong', even if it hurts no one physically. And by religious extremists, I mean anyone who makes political decisions based on religion instead of the Constitution...
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Just yell at the uncouth spawn of any nesting
soccer mom and watch her transform into Medusa.
While old people know that the best way for an
adult to protect a child is with the liberal
application of the back of their hand.
A grasp of technology has nothing to do with it.
Protecting the children is an apple pie and motherhood
argument. Few people will speak against it even if
it's invoked without cause.
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So, essentially, you and I are in agreement, except that I think a good grasp on technology matters. Someone who had both a good grasp on technology and the desite to band things 'for the children' would know that most of these 'protection' measures are useless and support other measures instead.
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obligatory...
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well
At Rajio, the basis is somewhat good, but with no way to enforce it this bill should have been forgotten after the idea struck.
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Wait what?
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Ask them
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Girls are what made me get in fights as a teen
I'm 40 but I still remember being 17 and just wanting to hit something just for the sake of hitting something, and the dude making a pass at my girl was a perfect excuse to for fill that erg...
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ummmmm......
Let's all go back to living in caves without technology and having to hunt for our food..........DAMN IT, HUNTING IS VIOLENT TOO!!
WE'RE ALL SCREWED, JUST DRINK THE KOOL-AID AND END IT ALL NOW. THERE IS NO SAVING THE HUMAN RACE FROM OURSELVES.
(PLEASE NOTE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SARCASM)
Or perhaps all the commie-hippie-libs out there can get a grip and realize that their misguided efforts to save their fellow man is slowly killing our society.
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Say TV, radio and newspaper reporters (journalists is a word I refuse to use in connection with that lot) who'll glady print any old tripe a long as there's something that will fit in a 20 second sound bite or can be fitted next to a blood curdling , full colour photograph on the front page. :-)
ttfn
John
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politics
poli means more than one
tics blood sucking parasites
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