U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat

GayBliss writes "The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it."

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Re:mod parent up...further

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Please mod parent article flamebait/troll.

Would you really expect anything less from CmdrTaco? Not that I think the people who work for the major media and went through 4 years of it in college are doing any better a job, but I think that he (and thereby /. and it's audience) would benefit greatly from his taking a few journalism courses. He's got the hang of sensationalism alright, but perhaps he should examine the finer aspects of journalism like clarity, consistency, intellectual honesty, in-depth research providing valuable insights to the reader instead of FUD, etc., etc. It's not as if he hasn't been at this a few years now... You'd think that, being a commercial website focused on delivering news and information to geeks, that, just perhaps, by now they'd have learned how to do a little research and actually provide some real information and intelligent articles instead of just blindly passing along whatever some troll dragged up off of a random news site.

You know, actually, I think a system to apply mod points to articles themselves and perhaps not just the person who passed along the article, but the editor who posted it would be a nice addition. Add karma into the mix, and perhaps we'll eventually see who the best of the /. editors are, with the potential for good, community conscious editors to rise up from the user pool who have some concept of what "news for nerds" really means, which would involve real information based on honest inquiry and research instead of just forwarding along unfounded FUD. Give a stable selection of long-time readers with positive karma and posting scores the ability to see articles before they're posted and vote on their relevance, accuracy and "truthiness" before they're slammed out to the general readership... and maybe even the ability to edit those submissions into something that actually resembles news and information, and we might have something worthwhile going here. As it stands, /. is every day becoming more like a blog or sci/tech oriented version of del.icio.us, and less a medium for reliable, thought-provoking news and information.