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Originally Posted by Splum
Smaller government, individual freedoms having nothing to do with giving children access to social networks like Myspace at school. What the fuck is wrong with you? This has nothing to do with the redistribution of wealth you freak.
By your piss poor analogy there should be no laws at all, are you some kind of anarchist? Are you mad because you wont be able to surf GFY while you are at your school anymore if this bill passes?
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Smaller government has everything to do with this law. It's up to the schools to decide what their students can and can't view online (along with parental input). The federal government has no business censoring innocent websites. Especially from guys who think an e-mail is called an internet and takes 4 days to get to his inbox because the tubes are clogged.
Social networking is the future and our schools should be embracing it and teaching students how to use it safe and properly. Banning sites like Wikipedia, news sites, informational forums/blogs, e-mail, and everything else that has social interaction. This is just setting kids further back in time and not preparing them for the future.
I believe in laws when they actually protect people. This law doesn't do that, it's just a way of censoring the web (which is the biggest threat to our government). Myspace isn't the problem, it's the fact that our country doesn't do shit about child predators. They get let off with probation, are allowed multiple offenses, and given light sentences because they are seeking counseling. Heck, the guy who doesn't have a warning page on his website will go to jail longer than a teacher who fucks a 14 year old student. Fancy that.
So I say it's fine for schools to ban Myspace and any other site they don't want kids going to. But that's up to the school, the trained professionals, not some old guy in Alaska who doesn't know what the internet is. This is shit you'd see in China, not the US.