I think the authority today is focusing a lot on the websites themselves.
This should not be done. I know that Myspace gives you countless saftey features that would protect you against unwanted visitors.
They don’t even think to consider that the child needs to be the focus. Obviously they should be taught not to talk to strangers and then just meet them!

Oh well, this law will never pass anyway. There are too many websites that give information to public and these people were not very specific.

Breaking News:

Legislation introduced this week will ban social networking, even sites used for educational and professional opportunities. What’s next? HR5319 will censor the communication of our generation and tell us who we can talk to, when and how. Tell Congress that social networking is a movement that we built, a movement that we are going to fight for.

Visit http://www.mobilize.org/SOS, take action, tell your friends and get mad.

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The bill blocks the use of these sites in public libraries, which is for many, the only access that they have to a computer. Our hope is to be able to amend the bill to take these facts into consideration. We agree that there need to be safeguards put in place for “sexual predators” and any of other crimes that might occur because of the accessibility of information on these sites, but to ban them in schools (including using school computers afterschool) and public libraries, is for many – banning social networking.

Now, let me tell you adults a little secret: we teenagers have discovered that as soon as we get online, we instantly, miraculously become twenty years older. Something the government might suspect, but could never prove.

“Hi! My name is James! I’m 34 years old!”

And I’m sick and tired of people ranting while their brains are turned off.

Regardless of how old you are, the world we live in today is not the same world you were brought up in. Even 12 years ago, few families has a computer in the house. Today, many families have several. Then most families had one telephone with maybe a couple of extensions. Now most of us have a cordless telephone in several rooms plus cell phones for ourselves and our kids.

Just those two paradigms have created a whole different world out there. Information is not only at our fingertips 24/7, but we expect it. We demand instant communication with everyone. The issue isn’t how we are bringing up our children, but what impact society is having on an influential period in their lives. We use to worry about teens hanging around a street corner. The street corner is now inside servers at MySpace and other internet meeting places.

Today the worry is whatever “white lies” we tell our kids, they will know the truth even before we tell them. Hillery Clinton got a lot of flack when she suggested that it takes a village to raise a child. That has expanded to the Global Village is raising our children whether we like it or not.

I don’t mind libraries blocking sites as long as it is that individual library that chooses to block the site. I don’t want the federal government telling my library what to block.

They are MY children and it is MY job to make sure what they are doing on-line and what information they can give out. It is MY job to make sure they know how to live in cyberspace safely and if they are not mature enough to live there then they won’t. If they make a webspace it will be with ME sitting next to them making sure it is appropriate for them and does not include information that can be used against them in some sinister way.

They problem with the United States today is there is no parenting anymore my mother knew everything i did even though she worked 2 jobs and went to night school to further herself. I knew what was right and wrong, and what the concenquences were when i did something wrong, an A$$ beating and the 1 hour lecture of why it was wrong.

My friends parents also taught their children what was right and wrong and had no problem giving me a kick in the A$$ when i did something wrong as my mother did with my friends and no one had a problem with this. You may have noticed i am only mentioning my mother in this because my father left when i was an infant and she raised me alone, so i don’t take ” this one left me that’s why i’m messed up” as an escuse. We all complain about the government taking our rights away but what we need to do is show them they have no right or NEED to tell us how to raise our families !! Until we all become BETTER parents( and i don’t care who you are or how good a parent you think you are you need to be better at it ) people need to wake up and see the things being done by todays Bush adminastration were brough to light is the Bush adminastration 12 years ago, and we have only proven that they were right and we have no family values. so until we step up and take back our children and teach them what live is all about we are doomed to becoming nothing more then the machine they are making for us.

Sorry to rant but i am sick and tired of everyone pointing fingers at this one and that one when WE are to blame !!!

I’d like to see someone find a way to monitor content. Look what happened to Mobog – it turned into an amateur porn site about 10 mintues after it went live.

The “Deleting Online Predators Act” would also require the FCC to publish a sort of annual blacklist of “commercial social networking websites and chat rooms that have been shown to allow sexual predators easy access to personal information of, and contact with, children.”

So, when a commercial site is shown to allow predators easy access to children, that site will be added to next year’s annual blacklist???

Blank has it exactly right, in #3:

“You have to wonder nowadays how there could possibly be people out in the world that still don’t have a clue as to how the Internet works.

Yet again, here’s a congressman who has no idea what he’s talking about. None…zip…zilch.”