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Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain
lostchicken writes "The Senate has approved the first viable "kid-friendly" system that doesn't try to control the Internet. See the story here. It is an opt-in system that allows a .kids.us domain to be pointed at a site approved as safe, as opposed to an adult only domain type system."
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Hmm. Personally, I wouldn't include the "church" and "safe for kids" strings in the same sentence without having an "isn't" in there.
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Anyways, paedophiles are evolution in action. Kids who can't evade shouldn't be given the right to vote, drink, and take drugs anyways. j/k:)
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
You're an idiot, but I really can't be arsed to waste my time explaining to you why that is the case.
My children access the Internet through AOL. The new AOL client has nifty parental access controls that filter out the evil stuff automatically. It's just like at home. I make rules and John and Kimmi follow them or face repurcussions. For Example: One day I caught Kimmi listening to music that was inappropiate, so I locked her in the closet for an evening and she had to forgo supper. As a mormon mommy it is important to me to be firm yet fair with my offspring. Another time, I caught John masterbating in the locked bathroom. So, I firmly but fairly but that little bastards dick off.
You panic like this is a bad thing...the creation of cyber terrorism laws...honestly, I'm all for a tight crackdown on the internet.
There's too many crack weenies and spammers out there already. I'd gladly give up some of my rights in exchange for a faster, more robust, and safer net to surf on.
Mind you, that's just my feelings. I also prefer to live in the nice neighborhoods where zoning laws are strictly enforced. Yeah, so I can't have a pink elephant in the front yard. It's worth the trade off to be surrounded by nice houses and yards and well maintained streets. If I wanted that total freedom of living, I'd go live in a unzoned area. You know...the ones with a nice classic cobble stone house right next to the trailer with a broken car in the yard with the porn shop across the street where all the child molesters hand out. People hang their bedsheets from the windows and neighbors blast their music to all hours of the night....Yeah, you can keep preaching freedom of rights all you want...I'd happily live with some restrictions with the trade off that others must abide to the same.
Oh, and don't critizise me for my poor analogy of neighborhood zoning and the internet. I'm not contrasting rich and poor. You can take ANY poor neighborhood and enforce a strict zoning on what you can and can't do. You'ld be amazed and just how nice old dumpy hoods can get with alittle tighter control. Mind you, it's a trade off of freedom and control. For me, I tend to like the benifits of control as freedom sometimes has a way of making many things look like crap. The best solution is a balance of the two.