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Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
A state senator in Georgia, Cecil Staton, has introduced a bill that would require parents' permission before kids could sign up at a social networking site such as MySpace and Facebook, and mandate that the sites let parents see all material their kids generate there. Quoting: "[Senate Bill 59] would make it illegal for the owner or operator of a social networking Web site to allow minors to create or maintain a Web page without parental permission [and require] parents or guardians to have access to their children's Web pages at all times. If owners or operators of a company failed to comply with the proposed law, they would be guilty of a misdemeanor on the first offense. A second offense would be a felony and could lead to imprisonment for between one and five years and a fine up to $50,000 or both." The recently offered MySpace parental tools fall short of the bill's requirements. This coverage from the Athens Banner-Herald quotes Facebook's CPO saying that federal law forbids the company to allow anyone but the account creator to access it..
tries to make another stupid law.
Since the religious radical republicans have taken over the state, I've had serious thoughts of moving back to TN. At least TN hasn't gone completely down the political toilet like GA.
I'm scared since you implied you are a parent. Your children will grow up learning how to get defensive and draw specious conclusions based on no evidence when it suits there agenda. Probably end up in politics...
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Indeed, a quick google search turned up this
Pah, google?
You only need to look at alt.sex.stories and then only at the headers of the articles not the actual content... (they use tags to describe the nature of the stories).
Most of it is incest, pedophilia, necrophila or bestiality (and thats not an exclusive-or).
Almost all of the pedophilia stories are also incest stories.
There are few incest stories which are not also pedophilia stories.
And amazingly enough, most of it seems to be generated from within the USA.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Congrats, you're a fascist parent. While your attitude is arguably correct for a 9-year old, it is beyond inappropiate once your child enters high school. If my parents tried pulling that level of bullshit on me, they'd find every computer in the household wiped clean. Of everything. I strongly suspect you're already not raising a child, but brainwashing one. Considering what you said about your religion, I already know you're a large part of the problem with this country.
In short,
Fuck you.
Care about privacy? Read this!