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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on May 12 06 06:46

Title: DiscoverSeattle site illegal under proposed House of Representatives bill
Post by: TehBorken on May 12 06 06:46
BusinessWeek looks at the flaws in the bill proposed by the House of Representatives that would [a href="vny!://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060512_299340.htm"]block access to social networks and Internet chat rooms[/a] in most federally funded schools and libraries.

One big problem with their bill is it is much too vague, it 'could rule out content from any number of Internet companies, including Yahoo! and Google.' What's more, DOPA would prohibit sites that enable users to create their own content and share it. (Like this one.) That covers a wide swath of the online world, known colloquially as Web 2.0, where users actively create everything from blogs to videos to news-page collections.


 
Title: Re: DiscoverSeattle site illegal under proposed House of Representatives bill
Post by: Trollio on May 12 06 06:55
Ahhh....  Step Two in the current administration's plan to follow Glorious Leader's model of perfect society.
 
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Title: Re: DiscoverSeattle site illegal under proposed House of Representatives bill
Post by: Gopher on May 13 06 02:06
My local library already semi-blocks access to DS, i.e. I can read all the messages but am unable to sign-in to make any replies.
Title: Re: DiscoverSeattle site illegal under proposed House of Representatives bill
Post by: Sportsdude on May 13 06 09:18
My library doesn't block anything. Went on DV. Nothing happend. Went on DS. Perfectly okay. Heck, the mother next to me was look into breast augmentation.  
Title: Re: DiscoverSeattle site illegal under proposed House of Representatives bill
Post by: Lise on May 14 06 08:49
NO WAY!!! May DS haunt the dreams of politicians for years to come.

  VIVA LA DS (xxxxx infinity)