School districts and universities use discussion boards and blogging sites in their curriculum all the time. My university (SUNY at Buffalo) has made a discussion board service, Blackboard, a required tool for many of its 30,000 students, and the Communications department requires that some of its students keep weblogs. We have professors that have Facebook and MySpace accounts.
The language was broad enough so that the bill author could stroke his constituents without having to worry about whether the bill would actually pass. The bill was written to fail. Its attention grabbing, and a line in his next campaign ad. Anyone with half a brain knows that policy like this is more easily implemented at a local school-by-school level.
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School districts and universities use discussion boards and blogging sites in their curriculum all the time. My university (SUNY at Buffalo) has made a discussion board service, Blackboard, a required tool for many of its 30,000 students, and the Communications department requires that some of its students keep weblogs. We have professors that have Facebook and MySpace accounts. The language was broad enough so that the bill author could stroke his constituents without having to worry about whether the bill would actually pass. The bill was written to fail. Its attention grabbing, and a line in his next campaign ad. Anyone with half a brain knows that policy like this is more easily implemented at a local school-by-school level.