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Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds
Nomihn0 writes "The RIAA has announced that the House Education and Labor committee is considering an amendment, HR1689, to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The proposal would allocate federal education funds to anti-piracy measures on college campuses. Most concerning is the bill's wording. It's claimed that the proposal would 'save telecommunications bandwidth costs.' In other words, the government will fund private packet filtering and preferential bandwidth allocation. 'The Higher Education Act (HEA) generally allows schools to spend the money they receive only on certain prescribed areas such as financial aid grants and Pell loans. The new bill would allow that money to be used for more things, but does not contain a request for additional funding. Whether schools would be interested in using a limited pool of federal money to police student file-swapping remains to be seen.'"
Why should the Federal government pay for anything related to education? It has no Constitutional role in education, and I resent my tax money being spent on education.
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> whoa there, you can't just make a jump from music genre to race slander
In my opinion, that's exactly what the OP did. He didn't say "dumb people like popular music," he said "the least educated people tend to listen to rap 'music'," and even added the condescending double-quotes to make sure we knew that not only are rap fans uneducated, they're too dumb to even realise that they're not listening to music. I only used the dreaded n-word because it's always easier to just try to cut to the truth than to sit around using all those flouncy euphemisms like "those people" and "urban" and "well-spoken" and the like. Anyone who's going to reduce the entire spectrum of rap to "music for dumb people" doesn't strike me as someone who's going to be very open-minded about race, either.