Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.

elearning 2.0 writes "It looks like the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) has died a slow death. DOPA was proposed during the height of last year's moral panic around the issue of child safety and sites like MySpace. The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding — therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space."

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Destroying Terroristic Buzzwords Act

[Anonymous Coward]

e-learning 2.0 space

In any just society, whoever wrote that would swing next to Saddam, Idi Amin, and the guy who invented clamshell packaging.

Re:Destroying Terroristic Buzzwords Act

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

>"We were the first to thermoform polycarbonate (PCEE); we invented the locking "clamshell" package and continue to serve up unique, custom solutions to your packaging needs."

Unless your needs happen to include having your customers actually get at your product without serious injury and/or bloodloss. These people should die the death of a thousand thermoform polycarbonate cuts, preferably administered by Sadam's executioners.

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space

Banning MySpace is undermining much of the pioneering work of what?

I must be missing something.

Re:WTF?

[Hal_Porter]

I dunno, I've seen some very pioneering typography on MySpace.

Yikes

[finkployd]

pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space

I was mildly interested until that. Then my "pretentious, meaningless buzzword" alarm went off.

I hope they are at least leveraging their e-synergies and fully embracing AJAX and SOAP in that 2.0 space.

Finkployd

Re:Yikes

[MBGMorden]

What's worse: my boss (like many I'm sure) actually falls for the buzzword of the week.

We'll bring in one group doing demo or webex of some software product, and they'll claim that their product does "Super hyper-relative process optimization". It'll be some common-sense obvious crap that they decided to tag that name onto.

The bad part comes when Vendor #2 comes in and demo's their product. He'll (with a straight and shockingly confident face) raise his hand in the middle and ask "Does this support Super hyper-relative process optimization?". When they have no idea what he's talking about he's already looking at me like "OMG. They don't even do super hyper-relative process optimization. Why did you even let these people in the door?". About this time I'm ready to just shake my head in embarrassment.

WTF is "e-learning 2.0 space"?

[TheWoozle]

WARNING: You have exceeded your buzzword quota for the day. Any future buzzword emissions will result in fines from the EPA.

Re:WTF is "e-learning 2.0 space"?

[TacNuke]

It appears you are trying to use a buzzword. Would you like me to help with that?

--Clippy......

Re:WTF is "e-learning 2.0 space"?

[PhilipMarlowe9000]

Come on, a paradigm shift that operationalizes poststructural Kantian hyperspace in a post-neo-syndicalist fashion is nothing to sneeze at. I concur with the article; this is the pathogenesis of the Bosch-Hegelian refractory-system!

Re:2.0 what?

[dr_dank]

"e-learning 2.0"? Is this a subset of Web 2.0?

This is where one can leverage their synergies to create new paradigms while using colored parachutes to find out who moved their cheese.