at it again

[owlmoose]

Once again the U.S. Congress is trying to decide what websites are inappropriate for children to visit, and this time the target is social networking sites. Particularly MySpace (the shark attacks of 2006) but LJ is also mentioned.

CNet article

PDF of the law

Basically, it expands the current law requiring public and school libraries to filter Internet access to cover MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, et. al.

The whole thing makes me crazy for too many reasons to elaborate on now. Maybe later.

Comments

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

The Democrats aren't that much better, really. They have the potential to be, but they haven't acted on it in years, preferring to complain and cringe and do nothing. Highly frustrating.

Furi, there is a lot I'd like to respond to in your other comment but I don't have time to go in-depth right now and a quick answer wouldn't do either your points or my feelings about them justice, so for now I will leave it at "what Ikon said" and come back with a more thorough response later. I do want to mention, though, that computers and the Internet have become an integral part of libraries in the last decade or so and you could no more remove them than you could remove all the books. In fact, in some kinds of libraries it might almost be worse.

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

In re libraries - have you heard the comment of one columnist (whose name has escaped me) on
Beloved Leader dreaming that his Pres. Library will be a 'think tank' where the opinions of de Toqueville will be studied? "This will be the emptiest 200 million dollar library in the world." That summed it up nicely, I thought.

Re: I

[furitaurus.livejournal.com]

So when it comes to the election, what do you do? Do you not vote at all or vote for the Dems? It's very tempting over here not to vote at all.