“Won’t somebody please think of the children?!”
US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies. According to the resolution’s top line summary it will “amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.”
Adults will be able to ask for the library’s permission to use such sites. The Resolution will now go to the US Senate for a vote before being offered to the President for signature into law.
Covering Our Partisan Asses.
COPA DOPA.
We have to ASK for permission? Who do these mother****ers think they are? I swear, this story just made me mad enough to send money to moveon.org.
It’s not extortion when the government does it…
Schools should be able to ban any sites they want, and myspace probably should be banned from every computer, cell phone, gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse. That said, the governement must definitely stay the hell out of it.
Why don’t they just ban EVERYTHING? It would be so much more efficient…
…myspace probably should be banned from every computer, cell phone, gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse.
Was missing brothels done on purpose?
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This is another one of those stories that some of the detail is missed by readers, “will lose their federal internet subsidies”. OK, if you have a problem with your school censoring due to federal regulations, pass a district referendum to fund your schools’ internet access without federal subsidies.
#6, cut-and-pasted an incomplete source I guess.
whorehouse mutherfucker!
ah, last I knew this was already law for schools. I work for a school and we are required by law under the Child Internet Protection Act to block websites that have nothing to do with class.
theres NO reason to have it in the schools.
Its not a learning tool.
Commercial social networking? What does this exactly mean? Could a site like ‘digg’ qualify under this categorization?
“theres NO reason to have it in the schools. Its not a learning tool.”
Oh so only learning tools should be allowed in schools. I guess that eliminates 90% of the books in the library, lunch, and the buildings themselves. Heck, do clothes or school uniforms teach us anything? Nope, I propose all nude schools!
Our school already blocks sites like MySpace, but the kids have found away to get around the firewall through proxy servers. This will not stop kids from accessing these sites. If they want to see it bad enough they will.
The picture at the head of the story is of Maude Flanders, with a caption below asking “What about the children?” That is funny, but historically it was Reverend Lovejoy’s wife, Helen, that would cry out in moments of town hysteria, “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?”
You were close though, and I still laughed.
Editor: Thanks Josh, it’s all fixed now!
Freedom of association doesn’t apply on the internet. It doesn’t really apply anywhere except where the government tolerates it.
12,
YEP,
Nude schools…Ya cant hide weapons when you cant WEAR cloths.
and then there is no Uniforms to worry about.
After awhile you get BORED looking at all the bodies, so sex abuse goes down.
And body awareness goes up, even with the handicapped. WOW, you got an outy..COOL… your legs are weird, COOL.. Howd you get a Wort, THERE??
just watch out for the little Nymph..
hahaha I bet murdoch wishes he hadnt bought up myspace now!
Nudity is unfair to fat kids. Everyone is skinny on the internet.
“OK, if you have a problem with your school censoring due to federal regulations, pass a district referendum to fund your schools’ internet access without federal subsidies.”
That mentality makes no sense. Essentially you’re saying that the federal government has the right to take our money via taxes then extort certain behavior out of us to get some of it back. It’s our damn money in the first place and the feds should have no right to tell us how to spend it!
That wouldn’t be the case if Myspace donates money to the Bush’s (any Bush.)
#13 – Sean – Our school already blocks sites like MySpace, but the kids have found away to get around the firewall through proxy servers. This will not stop kids from accessing these sites. If they want to see it bad enough they will.
Good 🙂 You say it but I doubt it is “exactly” true. I imagine a more true statement might be… “some” of the kids have found a way around it…
Why do I say good? Because smart kids who want to circumvent authority get a big thumbs up from me if they do it by teaching themselves to leverage the power of technology. Today, it’s myspace at school, tomorrow its classified NSA documents about corrupt government agencies released to the New York Times. In either case, these kids are cool in my book.
Fight the power!
#18 – Gigwave – Nudity is unfair to fat kids. Everyone is skinny on the internet.
I’m not.
#19 – SN – That mentality makes no sense. Essentially you’re saying that the federal government has the right to take our money via taxes then extort certain behavior out of us to get some of it back. It’s our damn money in the first place and the feds should have no right to tell us how to spend it!
Testify brother! I agree.
Myspace sux, or at least it’s html does. I tried to take the “Tour”, but the links were broken, or at least misdirected. I used the address bar for navigation, and that worked, but I’m not sure I’d want to trust these people with anything important.
Its the IDEA,
that you are useing a PUBLIC system that is available to ALL, for something that SHOULD be considered private.
Major blocking of popups and Bots should be the requirement, which would kill about 20% of the net, VERY easily.
Even checking EMAIL should be done at HOME, NOT AT SCHOOL.
Any rescource that requires you to sign IN, should not be allowed, unless someone monitors where you are going, and why.
#23 – ECA – “”Even checking EMAIL should be done at HOME, NOT AT SCHOOL. Any rescource that requires you to sign IN, should not be allowed, unless someone monitors where you are going, and why.””
Dude… The shit you are smoking is giving me a contact buzz… pass that bong over here.
WELL,
as a kid do you want you kid on everyone Elses computer checking there data, online?? Or do you monitor it at ALL..
#25 – ECA –
One dark day, not too long ago, I, a techno luddite, did something that broke my heart. I stopped using Eudora. I have moved 12 times in 6 years (which, in an unrelated point, makes me a bad credit risk according to the Satan worshippers at Equifax) and thus changed ISPs and Email addys too many times. Finally, I set up a Gmail account. Gmail is the first web-based email that I ever thought was worth a damn.
What is the point of the average person who stays in one place like a civilized human being and has one ISP and 1 email addy to switch from a POP Client to a web-based email, if not for mobility? What is the point of access anywhere if we can’t log in and use the services?
I know security is probably your concern, but you are an educated user. You can check your email pretty safely at the library.
SN,
If we stop taking the subsidies, maybe we won’t have a $300 billion dollar deficit…
Why don’t they just ban EVERYTHING? It would be so much more efficient…
“Good 🙂 You say it but I doubt it is “exactly” true. I imagine a more true statement might be… “some” of the kids have found a way around it…”
I can honestly say as a high school student that “all” of the students have found ways around the bans. I’ve done it too. There really isn’t any efficient way to completely ban a website anymore. There are just too many ways around it.
all u haterz out ther go fuck our self cause yall suck ass myspace rokz but tha nude idea seemz nice:)