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Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites

Posted by kdawson on from the including-Obama's dept.

AlexDV writes "Library blogger Michael Stephens is reporting that an Illinois state senator, Matt Murphy (R-27, Palatine), has filed a bill that 'Creates the Social Networking Web site Prohibition Act. Provides that each public library must prohibit access to social networking Web sites on all computers made available to the public in the library. Provides that each public school must prohibit access to social networking Web sites on all computers made available to students in the school.' Here is the bill's full text." This local effort harks back to an attempt last May to get federal legislation banning school and library use of social networking sites (Wikipedia summary here). The DOPA bill passed the House but died in the Senate.

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  1. Re:think of the children! by www.galvan.org · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol The time has come to galvanize
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  2. Re:No, it's not. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's easy. Just whitelist all the pages which are not social networking pages.

    And that would be porn, with a few slides of usable content.

    And Timecube!

    Put that way, the bill doesn't sound so bad after all.
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