Hands Off The Internet?

Where the hell is that lame astroturf movement now that government is actually screwing with the Internet? Oh it has nothing to do with hurting broadband providers' proclivity to gouge money from the Internet, so they don't care. This new bill banning social networking from schools and libraries in an effort to "protect" the children from cyber-stalkers is terrible. Its just lip service to the "save the children" bullshit that politicians all stoop to. You know that when some one says "won't someone please think of the children" on the Simpsons they're making fun of you, right? Tech dirt has a good point, that sticking your head in the sand doesn't make the danger go away. The kids are gonna surf the web, whether you want them to or not; hell they probably understand the concepts you're trying to legislate. Like that new goatse law that some embarrassed senator pushed through legislation. (of course that might be false, its hard to do research on that kinda thing) Legislating against practical jokes, yeah you guys are certainly getting worthwhile shite taken care of. Of course there are various interpretations of 'obscene' or 'misleading' and there's also a nice loop hole in just not using a DNS link. Whatever. The real flip flop is that bush apparently agrees that misleading links should be punished with jail terms, but his administration was responsible for ICANN denying the .xxx domain. Way to be consistent. I guess the message these career hillers are all sending is that they'll vote for whatever will get them re-elected.

Techdirt: House Rushes Through Bill To Make The Web More Dangerous For Kids