Monday, May 15th, 2006
Maya of Mobilize.org wrote me and asked to spread the word about fighting DOPA. Here’s what she said: Mobilize.org is launching a new campaign in response to Congress’ attempt to censor the communication of our generation. We have created the action alert below and built a website, www.mobilize.org/SOS. We are hoping to get as much [...]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
In the comments of my last post, Iris made a suggestion based on DOPA’s dope logic. Over in her own blog, she’s taken the idea and run with it. The result is quite amusing. Go give it a read.
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Great news! Our well-paid politicians in Washington have introduced a bill into Congress, with the oh-so-appropriate acronym of DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act). The law would require any schools and libraries that receive federal E-Rate money to block any social networking sites from their computers. Now, you may be saying to yourself, “Wait a goshdarn [...]
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
One of the downsides of living in Kansas is the bad press the state usually gets. People associate Kansas with Intelligent Design and Fred Phelps more often than with, say, Kathleen Sebelius. So, just to further dispel the image that Kansas is a state of backwards, closed-minded fundementalists, I present a blog post by the [...]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
What’s my position on filtering websites? Let me answer that question with… …a naked man: “Will someone please think of the children?”
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