Declan McCullagh of cnet reports that a group of Republicans want to ban school and library access to social networking sites by minors.
As I read the proposal, it also would bar school and library access to Bluffton Today, the next-generation website Morris is preparing to launch in Savannah, and any other website that lets users create personal profiles and communicate directly with one another through forums, blogs, chat rooms and the like.
This morning one of my local TV stations was banging the timpani and booming out a warning that Myspace could lead to the ruin of my children ... so I'd better tune in for tonight's newscast and learn how to protect my family. (Where are these stories coming from? Another VNR fake-news handout?)
Yeah, we got trouble in River City!