Politicians Target Social Sites For Restrictions

cnet-declan writes "Politicians are looking for reasons to convince citizens to vote in November, and polls say suburban parents are worried about the internet. Wednesday top House Republicans announced a bill to make 'social' Web sites unreachable from schools and libraries. The bill is intended to go after MySpace, but the actual text of the legislation covers sites that let users 'create profiles' and have a 'forum' for conversations -- which would include Slashdot and many blog sites. House Speaker Dennis Hastert claims it's necessary to stop 'dangerous predators' out here on the Interweb."

Remember...

[Cheapy]

Anyone who's opposed to this is a terrorist!

Think of the Kids!

Curses!

[SvetBeard]

Now I'll never find a girlfriend! (Where's the -1 Creepy mod when you need it?)

I agree with Myspace...

[Anonymous Coward]

... but Slashdot! Nooooo!

Re:Insight.

[Vengeance]

Of course, one can extend this just a bit. In my experience (I ain't exactly old, but I've been out of high school for decades) our Government CAN'T do anything right. So they should just stop doing everything.

Predators, smedators

[cryptochrome]

I've substitute taught, and I'm in favor of this legislation just to keep kids from wasting their computer time at school on networking sites and trying to one-up each other. They should ban yahoo mail while they're at it.

Re:So the purpose of the government..

[meringuoid]

So who protects the people from their government?

Terrorists.

This just in: Reality and Common Sense now Illegal

[Tomis]

And in other news, Republicans propose an amendment to the constitution making it illegal to let anyone under the age of 18 outside of the house, ever.

It may seam quite harsh, but one senator was quoted as saying "it's quite tame compared to the original proposal to automatically incarcerate all males who have reached the age of puberty. God knows they're all violent pedophiles in the making, better to lock them up before they harm any children." When asked if he had any children of his own the senator replied "Of course not, kids these days are just too unruly! Why would I want to deal with trying to raise one!"

Re:Help us Luke Skywalker, you're our only hope! [

[Eccles]

Frank Zappa must be spinning in his fucking grave!

On the plus side, we've hooked up a generator to him, and he's now providing enough clean, green energy to light 200 homes!

Re:So the purpose of the government..

[shawb]

802.11 assault rifles.

Re:Does not compute

[misleb]

No, there is still a difference between Dems and Reps. I believe the quote goes something like "Democrats are the tax and spend party. Republicans are the spend and spend party." From the Daily Show, perhaps?

-matthew

Broadcast Morgul?

[SIGBUS]

Seems to me that a broadcast morgul

I think that was supposed to be "mogul."

However, "morgul" would be very appropriate here.