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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.
>No, the stupid part is thinking that it justifies
>their actions. If it's wrong for Bush to do
>something, it doesn't make it right that Clinton
>did it.
The converse also applies: If it's wrong for Bush to do something it was ALSO wrong for Clinton to do it.
90% of the time I hear this whole line of conversation happen, it's because someone is demonizing Bush for something Clinton got a free pass on (Kyoto, military action without UN approval, Patriot vs DMCA, and so on).
An awful lot of people out there hate ANYTHING Bush does simply because it's Bush doing it, and nothing illustrates this better than watching Democrats wail and gnash their teeth over issues they were strangely silent on (or even supportive of) when their man was in the White House.
I've said it before, and I'll say it here: If Bush single-handedly stopped a busload of orphans from going over a cliff into a river full of ravenous crocodiles, he'd be criticized for starving those poor animals.
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Stop reading the fucking Daily Mail and try thinking for yourself, an ASBO is a shitload more than "a polite telling off" you fuckwitted right wing dumbass.