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."

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Schools not allowed to access slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the best thing is to privatise the schools so that they can be run properly offshore.

The sooner the children learn to speak asian, the sooner they'll have a job when they leave school anyway,

U send me ur education 4 ur offshore outsourced job plz.

Thx.

That makes no sense!!

[StewedSquirrel]

I'm sorry, you shut down a site where 20,000 people communicated because 3 bad guys did something creepy?

This in my eyes is sort of like:

"I shut down my convenience store because this creepy guy used to come in once or twice a month and oogle random women"

I'm sorry... what?

"I closed down my airline company because someone was once assaulted in the toilet"

"I shut down my coffie shop because a woman and a man met there and later she was raped"

Do any of these make ANY sense to anyone?

*confused*

There are bad people everywhere. They are uncommon, but if you collect 20,000 people, you can almost guarantee there will be 3-4 bad people. Go to a parade or a sporting event. There are 5 or 6 bad people there. They are thinking bad things. Should we shut down the parade? No!

This is absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stewing

Re:voting

[darth dickinson]

Diebolt, eh? Wonder if they're related to Diebold?