Ban on 'Social Networking Sites' for teens?

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A Pennsylvania congressman has introduced legislation that would ban minors from accessing social networking Web sites such as MySpace, and forbid libraries from making such access available.

The bill, known as the "Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006," was introduced Wednesday in the House by Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., a first-term representative. The bill has also been labeled as H.R. 5319, a Fitzpatrick representative said Thursday.
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Not allowing US (emo) residents to access sites such as MySpace? That is frankly appalling i feel. I can see what they are trying to do, but the wording is poor :sniper:

Thank god i live in a sane(ish) country ;)
 
If this passes then something else will spring up that defies it. Besides, trying to regulate something like MySpace is impossible. They'll just have more people lying about their age.
 
They'll have to vent their angst and anguish over this on a MySpace blo-... hold on. The world will surely implode.
 
Definately, kids will always find a way around this kinda thing
 
ComradeBadger said:
I quite like myspace..
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Do you also happen to like self-harming? There's quite literally 1 out of 100,000 myspaces that aren't stacked with painful collages of images, marquees, music playing at 200dB, painful text, brain-melting backrounds and camwhoring photos.
 
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

-Benjanmin Franklin

We need some real men here in America like Franklin, not these pansies that are running our government. :angry:
 
Axyon said:
Do you also happen to like self-harming? There's quite literally 1 out of 100,000 myspaces that aren't stacked with painful collages of images, marquees, music playing at 200dB, painful text, brain-melting backrounds and camwhoring photos.
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My collages of images are quite beautiful kthx :angry:
 
Axyon said:
Do you also happen to like self-harming? There's quite literally 1 out of 100,000 myspaces that aren't stacked with painful collages of images, marquees, music playing at 200dB, painful text, brain-melting backrounds and camwhoring photos.
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Ooh ooh! I'm one of the ones out of one-hundred thousand. :D

I know what you mean though.

Crazy kids :(
 
Axyon said:
Do you also happen to like self-harming? There's quite literally 1 out of 100,000 myspaces that aren't stacked with painful collages of images, marquees, music playing at 200dB, painful text, brain-melting backrounds and camwhoring photos.
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dude the girls on myspace are hawt.and that where cool new bands start off these days,like Acceptance, Chevelle,Beverly
 
The bill, known as the "Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006,"

"Ok, so shall we try and make it sound vaguely legal and credible?"
"No, let's not do that. Let's make ourselves sound retarded whilst attempting to pass retarded restrictions. That'll work!"

Axyon said:
Do you also happen to like self-harming? There's quite literally 1 out of 100,000 myspaces that aren't stacked with painful collages of images, marquees, music playing at 200dB, painful text, brain-melting backrounds and camwhoring photos.
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This whole forum is riddled with crappy, retarded threads, loathesome members, intollerable trolls but that doesn't outweigh the number of good threads and members, etc.
Just 'cause there are some idiots on MySpace, it doesn't make the whole thing bad. If you don't like the emo stereotypes, don't talk to them - it's really that simple.
 
Please ban neopets, I lost all my neopoints to scammers.
 
As a minor who responsibly uses Myspace, I feel disgusted that people would want to take down a service just because some people exploit it. Let's ban people from piloting planes, because I heard some scary terrorists have used them to kill a lot of innocent people! Using that logic, we should ban everything that has been exploited to cause harm to others. What a ****ing nut.
 
I really don't care that much because I don't use Myspace and all of that junk. All my friends are local so I can just talk to them over the phone or in person rather than over the Internet. I just want to know how they are going to enforce that? All a teen would have to do is lie about their date of birth and they are in. I would not be at all that complicated for someone like you or me to do. I think this is going to cause a great uproar somehow.
 
Maybe they could try something like developing a tangible social network in their area to complain.
 
Evo said:
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Not allowing US (emo) residents to access sites such as MySpace? That is frankly appalling i feel. I can see what they are trying to do, but the wording is poor :sniper:

Thank god i live in a sane(ish) country ;)
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It's a law that pertains to schools. In fact for a majority of people this means nothing because most schools already block it for 'adult content' or 'email service'

Article employs scaremongering by portraying it as "banning teens from accessing" but it's more like "force schools to implement webpage blocking software- most already comply anyway"
 
Darth Sidious said:
I really don't care that much because I don't use Myspace and all of that junk.
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"I don't care because this doesn't affect me."
Ah, logic.
 
thats really stupid

why not instead teach people to not fall in the claws of the "online predators"?
 
with myspace banned in pennsylvania, you will see the entire pennsylvanian emo/goth/punk scene take to the streets in protest.

I will be at those streets, with a steamroller, crushing weepy teens
 
My ass. They'll all cut themselves to death first.
 
Raziaar said:
Maybe they could try something like developing a tangible social network in their area to complain.
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What, like developing a tangible social network to discuss HL2?

Whatever grievances people may have towards MySpace (and I notice that the majority of people who do this have never actually gotten a MySpace account, they just subscribe to the stereotype and run with their negative misconceptions) they should also consider in realation to this place, or other foums they visit.
If you make acquaintances/friends here that you talk to outside of the forums, but not necessarily in real life, then that would be a form of networking due to this forum.
I'm not saying that this law will affect hl2.net because I severely doubt it will, I'm merely saying that networking sites like MySpace aren't as bad as people constantly make out, There's a hell of a lot of tedious band-wagon-jumping that gets awfully tedious.
Raziaar, this is not aimed specifically at you.

Although my eye doth switcheth the collective way of Jintor and Flyingdebris. If you're not part of MySpace, how would you know how bad it was or how true the stereotypes are? And if you're not part of it, then why bitch about something that does not affect you in the slightest?
 
Myspace. Meh no loss there. Very disturbing to see goverments trying to "control" the internet though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_dam5DmsM

el Chi said:
Although my eye doth switcheth the collective way of Jintor and Flyingdebris. If you're not part of MySpace, how would you know how bad it was or how true the stereotypes are? And if you're not part of it, then why bitch about something that does not affect you in the slightest?
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Becuase one day they'll decide to ban something that does affect more than myspace users.
 
Agreeed with el Chi.

It makes it very easy to keep in touch with friends at uni.. and also make new friends with similar interests at uni.
 
Teta_Bonita said:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

-Benjanmin Franklin

We need some real men here in America like Franklin, not these pansies that are running our government. :angry:
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There is no freedom except freedom under law, there is no liberty except liberty under authority. Law and authority will cease to exist without security, which grants us the basic thing needed to enjoy freedom: life.
 
Bloody Bebo is fuppin' huge over here. Seems like a waste of time imo.
 
ComradeBadger said:
Agreeed with el Chi.

It makes it very easy to keep in touch with friends at uni.. and also make new friends with similar interests at uni.
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Is Facebook popular at your uni? So much fun stalking fit girls on it :D
 
Haha no, I don't think it is.. Myspace is though

I get people coming up to me in clubs and saying 'I know you from myspace' and blahblah blah etc :p

It's kinda wierd but I don't mind as long as they don't turn out to be wierdos :D
 
Teta_Bonita said:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

-Benjanmin Franklin

We need some real men here in America like Franklin, not these pansies that are running our government. :angry:
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So true, Benjamin Franklin knew what he was talking about.
 
15357 said:
There is no freedom except freedom under law, there is no liberty except liberty under authority. Law and authority will cease to exist without security, which grants us the basic thing needed to enjoy freedom: life.
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What about anarchy? :p
 
el Chi said:
This whole forum is riddled with crappy, retarded threads, loathesome members, intollerable trolls but that doesn't outweigh the number of good threads and members, etc.
Just 'cause there are some idiots on MySpace, it doesn't make the whole thing bad. If you don't like the emo stereotypes, don't talk to them - it's really that simple.
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Your points would have merit if there weren't well-designed, easy to navigate sites like Facebook in existence. Your comparison's pretty void as well, considering I approached from a design perspective and you've taken the content angle. I'm sure there are some great people to meet, but the idea of wading through a clusterf*ck of a page really doesn't help things.
 
Kyo said:
Becuase one day they'll decide to ban something that does affect more than myspace users.
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No, I meant why do these people deride MySpace and its users when they don't use it as it has no effect on their lives.
And I find it ironic that, whilst people would shout and stamp their feet if the target was, for example, here, they don't care if it's MySpace, because that's not their rights being infringed upon. As soon as it's something they directly care about, then - and only then - does iut become a matter that EVERYONE should fight against.
You can't be for the closure of one site and against the closure of another when both closures would be due to the same law - you either oppose the law or you don't.
To say otherwise is hypocritical and childish and it pisses me off.

Axyon said:
Your points would have merit if there weren't well-designed, easy to navigate sites like Facebook in existence. Your comparison's pretty void as well, considering I approached from a design perspective and you've taken the content angle. I'm sure there are some great people to meet, but the idea of wading through a clusterf*ck of a page really doesn't help things.
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Yes, you argued that you didn't like the design. But rather than leaving it at that, you also went into the usual "all MySpace users cut themselves" line and the "it's only used by whiny teenagers" line.

Oh, and thank you for your derisory tone. It always boosts the credibility of one's point if one happens to sound irretrievably conceited.
 
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