No Space for MySpace?

conq writes "BusinessWeek looks at the flaws in the bill proposed by the House of Representatives that would block access to social networks and Internet chat rooms in most federally funded schools and libraries. One big problem with their bill is it is much too vague, it 'could rule out content from any number of Internet companies, including Yahoo! and Google.' What's more, DOPA would prohibit sites that enable users to create their own content and share it. That covers a wide swath of the online world, known colloquially as Web 2.0, where users actively create everything from blogs to videos to news-page collections." This is analysis of a bill we covered yesterday.

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Bill Bull

[Doc Ruby]

"the bill proposed by the House of Representatives"

An accurate description would be "the bill proposed by House of Representatives top Republicans". The House does not "propose" legislation, it passes legislation - despite the popular Republican "unitary executive" treason that makes Congress optional. This bill is the product of Republicans pandering to their clueless "morality base" as their "Brand W" sinks past 30% approval, below Nixon territory. The pandering relies on reporters ignoring its partisan Republican production. And Slashdot is there.

Re:can you regulate the internet?

[NineNine]

If any sweeping legislation does get through, who's going to enforce it?

Your friendly, neighborhood, TelCo, of course. After all, they're already "fighting terrorism" by giving the feds complete records of all of your calls. Besides, this might help them implement the tiered service they're dying to implement. Fuckers.