Congress looks to ban social networking
This post was published 3 years 6 months 9 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Bye Bye MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, as well as all you other social networking sites. Congress is guning for YOU!
A bill recently introduced by congress, The Deleting Online Predators Act, targets social networking and instant messenger services. The bill would require a ban minors from accessing social networking websites, as well as forbid libraries from making such access available.
The “Deleting Online Predators Act” would also require the FCC to publish a sort of annual blacklist of “commercial social networking websites and chat rooms that have been shown to allow sexual predators easy access to personal information of, and contact with, children.”
The definition of social networking is seemingly vague, leaving broad interpretations of what is and is not acceptable.
[any site that] allows users to create web pages or profiles that provide information about themselves and are available to other users; and offers a mechanism for communication with other users, such as a forum, chat room, email, or instant messenger.
Quick someone downlaod a copy of Geroge Orwells 1984
Quick! Quick! Hide the books before the autodafe (book burning) starts!
yeah thanks again oh great minds in government,
can you waste my tax money on more brilliant ideas?
dont blame the parents for not doing their job,
have others do the job of parents.
i guess they’re choking on the thick bush
is the bush blocking your breathing?
This is a very dangerous thing.
A little misleading there.
This bill would block Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, etc from being accessed in public libraries and public schools, not from your mom’s basement.
Many schools and libraries already do this anyway.
USA … home of the free…. well… as long as big brother says its ok :D
No boohiss – It will also ban minors.
yeah that whole banning minors thing is scary.. web 2.0 will fall apart!
I say down with MySpace. That hole ridden service needs to have some rules set in place governing minimum requirements as far as active members are concerned. First rule of cleaning up Web 2.0, do not buckle under the MySpace cash cow. Second rule of cleaning up Web 2.0, do not embrace MySpace. Third rule of cleaning up Web 2.0, legislating rules which forbid minors from participating in the service.
With recent news concerning the NSA and recorded phone calls, I hope to hell that message on MySpace are monitored just for sh*ts and giggles.
Myspace ought to go – its a predator’s paradise!
another example of the US making laws which due to the international nature of the internet may effect people in other countries.
parents should tell kids not to use myspace if they think it is not safe. it is not the govermnets place to play parent
I think some rules need to be put in place but shutting down things like IM services would affect alot more than the pervs that hang out on myspace. It sounds more like the government trying to put more controls in place. Parents need to have some clue about what their kids are up to instead of expecting the government to babysit your kids. Grow up parents and start talking to your kids…..
You know something…….. Alright, yeah, everyone says, “Parents need to have some clue about what their kids are up to.” Well the sad fact of the matter is, parents won’t, or at least the majority of parents won’t. So then what? That leaves kids to go do what ever the hell they feel like online. I agree with the bill to block places like myspace, personally, I believe that people waste their lives away on it. I believe people can put there minds to work, do something constructive, instead of killing their brain cells on Myspace, or Xanga, or whatever else is out there. I mean, c’mon, even video games offer more that Myspace. Myspace is a textual blog after textual blog. Now, as for the AIM front of the bill, I myself am an avid user of AIM, but, if it a sacrafice that I have to make to ensure that today’s youth may hopefully be forced to do something constructive, so be it. Or, better yet, why doesn’t “Tom” charge for myspace?
First off, there go alot of your underage users, because parents won’t check up on what their kids are doing, but they will make sure that their kids won’t waste their money on a stupid website.