Internet Tubes now Social Site Ban

Date August 3, 2006

The retards we have so dutifully elected has decided to ban social sites, such as myspace, in order to protect our children from online predators. Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA, is much more clever in name than substance. While the cause maybe noble but the approach is as dumb and incompetent as the whole lot. Here is why

  1. Redundancy. Schools and libraries already employ filters, required by various legaslation. Other methods work just as well. Due to a diligent IS staff, myspace is rerouted to Barney in his purple glory. Constantly monitoring and filtering works. Students study more than play anyway.
  2. Precision surgery with a broad sword. Banning sites that include social networking such as profiles includes many useful sites, News sites like Slashdot and Digg rely on user input. Amazon and Ebay use profiles for commerce. Teachers, librarians and support staff often use these sites to the benefit of students and alike.
  3. Freedom of Speech. While a High School kid is refused some of the rights at school but adults or students over 18 are afforded that right. Or at least last I checked. The sweeping bans on sites I mentioned before lead this to instant challenge.
  4. Get them at home. Come on idiots. The predators get them while they are upstairs on the new Sony Vaio or Macbook you just walked and purchased for “school”. The untold hours spent chatting with friends doesn’t happen at school but at home. Move the computer into the living room and simple internet filters for home PC’s make this useless.

What part of this law deletes an online predators. At what point to the politicians stop trying to write laws to control rampant technological development and begin to understand it and work with it.

Other thoughts on this: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Learning Now

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2 Responses to “Internet Tubes now Social Site Ban”

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    August 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm

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