Sam’s random musings

Headline: Congress Targets Social Network Sites

Headline: Congress Targets Social Network Sites:

So here we go…let’s REALLY get around this messy job of educating our kids by just legislating away school access to not only MySpace but to any

…commercial Web sites that let users create public “Web pages or profiles” and also offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service.

Including blogs, wikis, online gaming…

No joke. This is a bill offered up by a group of Republicans whose polling shows that now is the time to capitalize on the hysteria that a slew of fright-filled articles about social networking sites has wrought.

It really is worth reading both the Tim’s write-up as well as the original articles

(Via weblogged News.)