Save the Internet!

[SoonerStud615]

Everybody needs to go to this website and help:

http://www.savetheinternet.com

Congress is trying to pass something where internet providers could limit what sites you could see and which ones you can't. The ones who can't, the ISP will create an imposter version of the site and show you that. But it will be run by them and not the same at all. The only reason they would cut out websites is if the website host isn't paying them enough money. So, go to that website and fill out the stuff so that this doesn't happen.

[bri]

Do you even NOTICE the hook in your jaw?

[StoopTroup]

This is the only website I need.

[TUSooner]

When will I get my check?

[Okla-homey]

I'm still waiting for the ".xxx" ending for all pron sites they promised so we don't have to warn NSFW anymore.

[critical_phil]

This is the only website I need.


http://zombo.com/

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Congress may clamp down on MySpace

By Stokely Baksh
UPI Technology Correspondent
May. 11, 2006 at 1:39PM
New legislation from Congress would block access to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools and libraries, including instant-messaging services.
The bill known as the "The Deleting Online Predators Act" introduced by Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., aims at protecting minors from online child predators.
According to the bill, it "prohibits access to commercial social networking Web sites or chat rooms through which minors" can access obscene or indecent material, be subject to unlawful sexual advances or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults, or access harmful information.
The bill terms a social-network Web site as one that allows users to create Web pages or profiles about themselves as well as offers communications including a forum, chat room, e-mail or instant messenger, while a chat room is termed a site that allows multiple users to communicate in real time via text.
"Sites like MySpace and Facebook have opened the door to a new online community of social networks between friends, students and colleagues," Fitzpatrick said. "However, this new technology has become a feeding ground for child predators that use these sites as just another way to do our children harm."
Specifically, it would require schools and libraries to implement security systems to prevent students from being exposed to obscene and objectionable material, according to Fitzpatrick.
It would strengthen existing Web-surfing filters for indecency or obscenity.
Moreover, it also mandates that a Web site be created by the Federal Trade Commission to educate adults about the dangers of such online child predators and at the same time provide information on how social-networking sites are used and what should not be included in a user's profile.
"As the father of six children, I hear about these Web sites on a daily basis," Fitzpatrick said. "However, the majority of these networking sites lack proper controls to protect their younger users. Also, many parents lack the resources to protect their children from online predators. My legislation seeks to change that."
While some schools have already banned access to MySpace, which has some 72 million users, a raging Internet battle has been brewing between children, parents, law enforcement, Internet-freedom proponents and Congress over different issues in the debate, such as the legality of a ban vs. educating youths vs. stricter protections against online child predators.
Still, social-networking sites are cleaning up.
In March MySpace announced it had removed some 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its network to address fears of Internet security.
The site removed profiles contained either hate speech or risqu? content as one way to deal with the problem.
Maintaining a reputation for appropriate content isn't a bad thing either, making sites more attractive to advertisers who are already flocking to sites like MySpace because of their growing user base.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Well now that they are going to stop MySpace, steriods, too sexy cheerleaders, and their various other big deeds... Congress might be able to get to gas prices around 2028 once they get the important stuff out of the way!

[soonerhubs]

http://zombo.com/
I feel so confident now.

[Vaevictis]

blah blah blah

Do you even understand what the issue is?

It's not that the carriers want to limit what sites you see and what sites you can't, it's that they want to be able to charge content providers for preferential access.

It's a problem, but it's a totally different one.

The way the internet works right now is that the area between two end points is a "best effort" area. They deliver data as fast as they can between the two end points, but with no gaurantees.

What they want to do is create a tiered structure where content providers that pay get best effort, and everyone else gets whatever is left over.

IMO, it's good for the telecom business, good for latency-sensitive applications (VoIP, for example), and bad for everyone and everything else.

(Personally, I am curious how they think they're going to technically implement it. Traffic shaping in the core is virtually impossible, and traffic shaping at the edge defeats the purpose of buying a bigger pipe. I guess tagging IP packets at the edge with certain priorities might work, but that would be very, very rough grained and if I were a content provider, I would expect some strict accountability that this method probably would be incapable of providing...)

[jacru]

all show and no go. all talk and no walk. congress specializes in appearing to do something and changing nothing. with politicians, it's all about appearances. they just need to be percieved by a target constituency as doing something. most proposed legislation gets nowhere.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Now Now Jacru!!! No one is on steriods because of them!!!

[colleyvillesooner]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/neutrality.asp

[slickdawg]

It's all Al Gore's fault.

[bri]

Congress may clamp down on MySpace

By Stokely Baksh
UPI Technology Correspondent
May. 11, 2006 at 1:39PM
New legislation from Congress would block access to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools and libraries, including instant-messaging services.
The bill known as the "The Deleting Online Predators Act" introduced by Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., aims at protecting minors from online child predators.
According to the bill, it "prohibits access to commercial social networking Web sites or chat rooms through which minors" can access obscene or indecent material, be subject to unlawful sexual advances or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults, or access harmful information.
The bill terms a social-network Web site as one that allows users to create Web pages or profiles about themselves as well as offers communications including a forum, chat room, e-mail or instant messenger, while a chat room is termed a site that allows multiple users to communicate in real time via text.
"Sites like MySpace and Facebook have opened the door to a new online community of social networks between friends, students and colleagues," Fitzpatrick said. "However, this new technology has become a feeding ground for child predators that use these sites as just another way to do our children harm."
Specifically, it would require schools and libraries to implement security systems to prevent students from being exposed to obscene and objectionable material, according to Fitzpatrick.
It would strengthen existing Web-surfing filters for indecency or obscenity.
Moreover, it also mandates that a Web site be created by the Federal Trade Commission to educate adults about the dangers of such online child predators and at the same time provide information on how social-networking sites are used and what should not be included in a user's profile.
"As the father of six children, I hear about these Web sites on a daily basis," Fitzpatrick said. "However, the majority of these networking sites lack proper controls to protect their younger users. Also, many parents lack the resources to protect their children from online predators. My legislation seeks to change that."
While some schools have already banned access to MySpace, which has some 72 million users, a raging Internet battle has been brewing between children, parents, law enforcement, Internet-freedom proponents and Congress over different issues in the debate, such as the legality of a ban vs. educating youths vs. stricter protections against online child predators.
Still, social-networking sites are cleaning up.
In March MySpace announced it had removed some 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its network to address fears of Internet security.
The site removed profiles contained either hate speech or risqu? content as one way to deal with the problem.
Maintaining a reputation for appropriate content isn't a bad thing either, making sites more attractive to advertisers who are already flocking to sites like MySpace because of their growing user base.

See, this is more like it. This is more the reactionary, knee-jerk, bandaid-on-a-severed-limb kind of action that Congress is ACTUALLY capable of...:D