House Passes Ban on Social Site Access

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a C|Net story covering a House of Representatives vote on restricting access to social sites on public terminals. The bill, which passed the House in a 410-15 vote, would bar users from accessing sites like Amazon, MySpace, or Slashdot from terminals in libraries and schools. Adults would be able to 'ask permission' to access such sites. From the article: "'Social networking sites, best known by the popular examples of MySpace, Friendster and Facebook, have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years,' said Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican and one of DOPA's original sponsors. Now, he added, those Web sites 'have become a haven for online sexual predators who have made these corners of the Web their own virtual hunting ground.'"

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Re:Yet another way the poor kids get left out

[Roody Blashes]

No, but I apparently understand the difference between "being alive" and "being popular". You should work on coming to the same understanding of life. It's very simple: sometimes bad things happen. It's not society job to prevent that, but for the most part most people don't have a problem providing for less fortunate people's NEEDS. I don't mind paying for some kid's connection so he can do research and get a fair chance at college and work. I don't, however, feel any particular obligation to buy him a pair of Nike Shox so he can go the ballgame on Friday night and be one of the cool kids.