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US House: No Social Networking Sites at School

Techcrunch has a good post discussing the recent decision made (lastnight) by the US House. House Resolution 5319 (the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA) was passed lastnight with a vote of 410 to 15. If the resolution does indeed become law, schools and public libraries will lose federal internet subsidies if they don’t block social networking sites such as MySpace and Newsvine.

Now, I’m all for keeping MySpace out of schools, it has no place there. But every social networking site shouldn’t be targeted, that’s just insane. That’s like banning all light bulbs because one manufacturer has problems with their light bulbs exploding. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I’m very upset by this decision. Go over to Techcrunch to read more about it. They’ve also got links to many other sites that discuss HR5319 in greater detail.

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Blogspot Boylove Shutdown

The “boylove” site discussed in my previous post has been shut down. I don’t think anyone would argue with that, except maybe “Freedom“.

Stacy informed me of the sites demise in the comments in that last post, I do appreciate the info provided by readers in comments very much. New sources are good, I don’t typically get a lot of my information from the Christian bloggers and religious community in general, so a change is nice I guess.

Now, this is just one of what’s likely to be many tens of thousands of “boylove” blogs. Assorted Babble rightly notes that parents need to be aware of their childrens online activity at all times. I’d expect to see some sort of group formed to start targetting some of the larger and more popular “boylove” blogs. Groups are how the blogosphere gets shit done.

I’m all for violating peoples right to free speech if they’re going to be discussing fantasies, that if acted out, would be 100% illegal. Some would say that isn’t free speech, but free speech isn’t unlimited. For instance, you can’t speak of bombs while on an airplane. This is the same type of thing. People shouldn’t be allowed to blog about their fantasies with small boys, no matter how much they believe it’s an OK act to engage in.

I think a few years of a “Red Scare” type scenario would do some good. I wish some people were afraid about how their views and opinions would be percieved by others. I’m exempt of course, because, uhh, I just am.

I’m by no means advocating for large scale government involvment in internet freedoms. As far as I’m concerned, they should stay out totally. It should be up to individual companies to include such content restrictions in the terms of service.

Oh, and this post has been linked at Outside The Beltway and Mudville Gazette.

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