Oh, for fuck's sake

[yendi]

So, are Hawaiian senators as dumb as Alaskan ones? I mean, I expect this sort of stupidity from Ted Stevens (because I expect all sorts of stupidity from Ted Stevens, since he's, well, stupid), but the fact that he found a bipartisan co-sponsor the latest round of "let's censor teh intartubes in the name of the children" is distressing. I'd hope for smarter folks to prevail, but this is Congress, after all.

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[amokk]

Isn't it the government's job to take care of everyone?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

It is until a Democratic legislator proposes something, then they're the Antichrist for proposing such preposterous thinking.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Well, Stevens is the guy that cried like a leeeeetle teeny babyman when someone tried to take away his $400 million dollar bridge that provides service to like, 50 people. God forbid 50 people in Alaska be inconvenienced in the interest of saving half a billion dollars for the taxpayers. Let's cancel Headstart and AFDC for another couple million kids instead.

F*cking bastard.

[ex-bookkeep.livejournal.com]

Government will, in all cases and at all times, be quite certain that they know better than you. The helpless sheep are incapable of raising children, arranging their domestic affairs, burying loved ones, or surfing the web without a helpful government regulation (and obligatory bureaucracy) to guide our hand.

Just think of what they'll do for your health care!

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Inouye has been a Senator for all the time Hawai'i has been a state. In 1992 I had the great privilege of voting against him.

I give him his props; he was a member of the nisei battalion in World War II and lost his arm buying our freedom from the Nazis. But he should have retired long, long ago.

[litch.livejournal.com]

Daniel Inouye has usually been pretty clueful.

I think the headline on the article you linked to is misleading. Looking at the actual statements of the committee (link) (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248891&Month=7&Year=2007) it's not that outrageous.

They say they want (http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248890&Month=7&Year=2007):
· direct the Federal Communications Commission to identify industry practices that can limit the transmission of child pornography;

I would like to know what works for limiting it and how much it helps.

· require schools that receive E-Rate funds to provide age-appropriate education to their students regarding online behavior, social networking and cyberbullying;

Network hygiene classes sounds like a good idea

· require the Federal Trade Commission to form a working group to identify blocking and filtering technologies in use and identify, what, if anything could be done to improve the process and better enable parents to proactively protect their children online; and

Empowering parents to be better consumers rocks.

· add the selling or purchasing of children’s personal information in connection with a criminal offense in the criminal code as an indictable offense.

I think personal information brokers are scum and don't mind anything that requires them to be more careful about what information they have & share.