U.S. House Bans Internet in Schools and Libraries
In an election-year effort to protect our children from online predators, the U.S. House has approved 410-15 to ban from schools and libraries any website that meets the following criteria:
Which means, this site, Amazon.com, LinkedIn, Ebay, TypePad, and essentially any website requiring a name/password to access. Definitely one of the darkest Congressional votes.
More from ZDNET, Rex Hammock, and TechCrunch, all of it aggregated at DOPAWatch.
Hey, who’s up for setting up a MySpace, Friendster, or similar account for our 410 favorite Congressmen? Seems to me, they could use some online friends.
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Wow. I thought the ’series of tubes’ was a low point for congress. This is absurd beyond belief.
Does it have to meet all of the criteria or a specific number of them or what?
from reading it I think I can answer my own question. This bill could be used to block any site that meet any of the items on the Critera list.
This means that just about any site that allows for communication, or is for commercial use can be blocked as a result of this. So that mean I guess they will have to block every site on the internet?
Or anysite with adsense or some other service. What about sites with tip jars?
All of the people who voted no were democrats. Now there seems to be a story there to me. I see a good story out of it but I am sure others will see a negitive one.
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Top things that scare politicians:
- gays
- them mexicans
- that series of tubes calle the internet
Things that don’t seem to bother politicians at all:
- war
- war
- more war
Odd times…odd times…
“All of the people who voted no were democrats. Now there seems to be a story there to me. I see a good story out of it but I am sure others will see a negitive one.”
The negative story is that ONLY FIFTEEN voted no. Yea, they happened to be democrats, but they were still outnumbered by the idiots in their own party.