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Politicians Target Social Sites For Restrictions
cnet-declan writes "Politicians are looking for reasons to convince citizens to vote in November, and polls say suburban parents are worried about the internet. Wednesday top House Republicans announced a bill to make 'social' Web sites unreachable from schools and libraries. The bill is intended to go after MySpace, but the actual text of the legislation covers sites that let users 'create profiles' and have a 'forum' for conversations -- which would include Slashdot and many blog sites. House Speaker Dennis Hastert claims it's necessary to stop 'dangerous predators' out here on the Interweb."
Anyone who's opposed to this is a terrorist!
Think of the Kids!
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
Now I'll never find a girlfriend! (Where's the -1 Creepy mod when you need it?)
... but Slashdot! Nooooo!
Of course, one can extend this just a bit. In my experience (I ain't exactly old, but I've been out of high school for decades) our Government CAN'T do anything right. So they should just stop doing everything.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
I've substitute taught, and I'm in favor of this legislation just to keep kids from wasting their computer time at school on networking sites and trying to one-up each other. They should ban yahoo mail while they're at it.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
Terrorists.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
And in other news, Republicans propose an amendment to the constitution making it illegal to let anyone under the age of 18 outside of the house, ever.
It may seam quite harsh, but one senator was quoted as saying "it's quite tame compared to the original proposal to automatically incarcerate all males who have reached the age of puberty. God knows they're all violent pedophiles in the making, better to lock them up before they harm any children." When asked if he had any children of his own the senator replied "Of course not, kids these days are just too unruly! Why would I want to deal with trying to raise one!"
Frank Zappa must be spinning in his fucking grave!
On the plus side, we've hooked up a generator to him, and he's now providing enough clean, green energy to light 200 homes!
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
802.11 assault rifles.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
No, there is still a difference between Dems and Reps. I believe the quote goes something like "Democrats are the tax and spend party. Republicans are the spend and spend party." From the Daily Show, perhaps?
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Seems to me that a broadcast morgul
I think that was supposed to be "mogul."
However, "morgul" would be very appropriate here.
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!