"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."
I don't like the sound of that at all. Schools should have the power to block whatever you want to protect the student and their network, but this bill sounds way too wide. CNET allows a forum to talk about articles? Will that be blocked? Google has groups, will that make all of Google blocked? Slashdot itself might even be blocked.
IMHO, this will not help anything anyways. Students of this generation are very tech smart, perhaps smarter than the people that are passing the laws. Most students can bypass school proxy systems already very easily. There are whole teen groups and sites dedicated to sharing bypass information. So what is this going to do?? Really?
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