Shocking and regressive

jktan — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:43:40 -0600

This is shocking and regressive. Almost like throwing the baby out with the bath water. So many benefits of social networks would be lost. And like you've noted, this won't solve the problem of sexual predators. They can simply find/create another avenue.

I suppose some would start blaming ALL Christian groups for this. Just hope that many would realize that people can be tolerant or intolerant, regardless of their religious or atheistic beliefs.

all too familiar

jes — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:27:34 -0600

This is kind of what I'm going through - except at the hand of my employer.

jes

Social Networking Website Prohibition: Illinois

Marianne Richmond — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:37:20 -0600

Illinois State Senator Matt Murphy has introduced a bill that would ban social networking sites in Illinois public schools and libraries. Apparently inspired by DOPA the Illinois bill is even more comprehensive. No access to social network sites on all computers in all public schools for anyone...DOPA applied only to schools that received Federal funding under the E-Rate program and prohibited access to the internet by students.

Mashable writes that Murphy was "thinking of the children"...it seems to me that this kind of "hate mongering"indicates that someone is not thinking of anything but re-election.

It is kind of ironic that school children in Barack Obama's home state will not be able to experience his social network first hand; I guess no discussions in Illinois' schools about the role that social networks are playing in campaign 08.

A state Senator from Georgia, Cecil Staton,has introduced a bill,Senate Bill 59 that would require parental permission for kids to sign up on a social networking site. Further, the bill would give parents access to their chldren's MySpace and Facebook pages.

Well, I have to say the parental permission thing is not a bad thought from a parent's perspective; the problem with the bill is that it won't solve the problem that it is targetd at: sexual predators.

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Shocking and regressive

all too familiar

Social Networking Website Prohibition: Illinois