DOPA

[amoken]

I'm sure zellandyne would really like to see this one go through, as well as several other teachers who use tools like this to teach. Not to mention the students who who are trying to make up for their crappy public school "education" by locating information. Oops! Where'd it go?http

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[amoken]

zellandyne teaches writing, so the most obvious connection is that people do blog, and they can get money and fame out of it, and it's a valuable style to understand. I'm pretty sure she uses it for more than just that, but that alone is enough to cause pause for normal people, let alone crazies like me who don't believe in keeping information from kids just because a few of them might get hurt. I'm rather a proponent of giving them more information about how to avoid getting hurt. :P

Also, I haven't read the actual language of it, and if I did I still might not be clear on whether it would affect Wikis. I kind of doubt it does just because I'd expect Declan McCullough to mention that kids wouldn't have access to Wikipedia....yikes! That's where I get a lot of my starter information these days, after all. And it has a LOT more accurate info than I had available as a kid!

[cosyne]

ah. i somehow missed the sarcasm in your OP, so i was like 'huh, that's an odd thing for her to say' and the flywheels in the rantomatic were spinning up quite quickly ;-)
I still feel like mentioning that this guy gets extra Lame-o points for calling the legislation the 'deleting online predators act'. Like, "oooh, look at me, i can misuse technical jargon, therefore you will vote for my ill-concevied net censorship legislation, lusers!"

[mtbg]

Don't be too quick to dismiss a "clever" name for a piece of legislation. The naming of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act was a stroke of (evil) genius.

[zellandyne]

heh. Looks to me like this fellows just grabbing hold of the next fad and using it to gain a name. I'll bet he doesn't even really care about the issue in the deepest accesses of his sould. Then again, maybe he does and that's why he wants to get rid of social networking sites, because he knows what he'd use them for