A Teaser For Tomorrow's Post...
.:Register? Value-Added?:.
According to some bloggers like Mike Abundo, the National Telecommunication Commission has been looking into classifying certain Websites and data posted on the internet as “value-added services”. This means they actually have to be registered with the government, and will, yes, cost people more money.
Based on the excerpts from several other bloggers, it would seem that only services that make profits are considered for this registration, but the problem is that the definition of terms is so general and open to interpretation that “profit” could be as simple as a Google AdSense-enabled weblog, which is due cause for alarm as far as the blogosphere is concerned.
This situation bears watching…
.:More Scapegoats:.
There was a time when jazz music was regarded as inciting the youth to violence. Rock music had the same effect, and then with the book “Seduction of the Innocent”, even comic books were adversely affected until they ended up being the niche market that they are now.
To this date, people are more familiar with Batman as the campy 1970’s television series, and of course, the Justice League as the Superfriends, which of course, was the inspiration for the Super-Duper Friends video. This is despite the fact that the Batman has long eschewed from those campy days, and the fact that Aquaman is not useless outside of water.
Now, we see the frequent scapegoat being violent media. We have The Matrix, Counterstrike, and be they movies, television shows, or even video games, they are the scapegoat of choice for people who want to wash their hands of violent crime and just find an easy “cause” to blame and attack it in place of actually dealing with the problem.
For tomorrow, expect me to write at length about this, but the latest scapegoat?
Well, according to Pat Buchanan, it’s tolerance.
Wow. I still haven’t fully processed that thought… tolerance?!?
More on this tomorrow.
According to some bloggers like Mike Abundo, the National Telecommunication Commission has been looking into classifying certain Websites and data posted on the internet as “value-added services”. This means they actually have to be registered with the government, and will, yes, cost people more money.
Based on the excerpts from several other bloggers, it would seem that only services that make profits are considered for this registration, but the problem is that the definition of terms is so general and open to interpretation that “profit” could be as simple as a Google AdSense-enabled weblog, which is due cause for alarm as far as the blogosphere is concerned.
This situation bears watching…
.:More Scapegoats:.
There was a time when jazz music was regarded as inciting the youth to violence. Rock music had the same effect, and then with the book “Seduction of the Innocent”, even comic books were adversely affected until they ended up being the niche market that they are now.
To this date, people are more familiar with Batman as the campy 1970’s television series, and of course, the Justice League as the Superfriends, which of course, was the inspiration for the Super-Duper Friends video. This is despite the fact that the Batman has long eschewed from those campy days, and the fact that Aquaman is not useless outside of water.
Now, we see the frequent scapegoat being violent media. We have The Matrix, Counterstrike, and be they movies, television shows, or even video games, they are the scapegoat of choice for people who want to wash their hands of violent crime and just find an easy “cause” to blame and attack it in place of actually dealing with the problem.
For tomorrow, expect me to write at length about this, but the latest scapegoat?
Well, according to Pat Buchanan, it’s tolerance.
Wow. I still haven’t fully processed that thought… tolerance?!?
More on this tomorrow.