Parents who don't want there kid seeing websites with hate messages, pornography, etc., shouldn't have to worry about that being on the schools computer. I'm talking about HS and down.
However, i'm not sure that the gov made an educated decision here. Bad filtering software, freedom of speech, government's ignorance of the internet (which they created) are a few of the problems i have with this. It seems to me that these school/library issues are better delt with at the local level. Let the community decide how there children are to be educated.
I DO think these issues need to be addressed, though. There are alot of concerned (and scared) parents out there. You can't just say "no cencorship in schools" and everything be peachy. But the gov over stepped its bound on this one. There is no federal aproved book list. There shouldn't be a federal mandate for internet filtering. IT IS A COMMUNITY ISSUE.
ACLU gripe:
The thing I HATE about the ACLU is that they step in on Civil Liberty issues only to shoot whatever down, and then do not provide a solution. I thought the ACLU was for the people, but lately they seem to be mostly against the people. Now, on this issue i think that they do have the masses in mind. But they take it to the extreme by wanting no censorship and this is were they fall short in my book.
-jason
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Parents who don't want there kid seeing websites with hate messages, pornography, etc., shouldn't have to worry about that being on the schools computer. I'm talking about HS and down. However, i'm not sure that the gov made an educated decision here. Bad filtering software, freedom of speech, government's ignorance of the internet (which they created) are a few of the problems i have with this. It seems to me that these school/library issues are better delt with at the local level. Let the community decide how there children are to be educated. I DO think these issues need to be addressed, though. There are alot of concerned (and scared) parents out there. You can't just say "no cencorship in schools" and everything be peachy. But the gov over stepped its bound on this one. There is no federal aproved book list. There shouldn't be a federal mandate for internet filtering. IT IS A COMMUNITY ISSUE. ACLU gripe: The thing I HATE about the ACLU is that they step in on Civil Liberty issues only to shoot whatever down, and then do not provide a solution. I thought the ACLU was for the people, but lately they seem to be mostly against the people. Now, on this issue i think that they do have the masses in mind. But they take it to the extreme by wanting no censorship and this is were they fall short in my book. -jason