Man, this is a bombshell! I’m just wondering how in the world they intend to try and inforce this one.

I think I’ll create a “social proxy” to keep all the everyone in the groove.

Great, Another stupid unworkable law…

I think it’s about time the law makers got thier priorities straight and about time parents took some responsibility for thier kids safety.

After all this I kinda really think *Computers in the Classroom* may be a Bad Idea…

Kids these days think Everything is FREE an School is for Downloading Music, Playing Games and Chatting with their friends online or playing with their Myspace account…

Ummm, Good place to look for the blame is the Parents…

“Hey Marge!!, we can just buy Johnny another Video Game and get Him Broadband and never have to deal with him again”…

I’ve played Video Games since the early 80′s when there was no “Video” in the games and I was a young adult at the time but I “NEVER” turned out like what I am seeing these days…

I know that this law is pretty un-enforceable but if passed it will still have a huge impact. Many libraries and schools will abide by the law without enforcement and the broad language of the law is obsurd. It includes every blog out there, (including Techcrunch), Newsvine, Digg, even the new Netscape!

Although I don’t live in the US I am an English-language publisher online with a very large under-18 audience. This means that I will have to watch my back adding any interactivity to my sites as they are often accessed from schools.

Dugg.

This is a friggin’ joke. It’s time that Internet enthusiasts and advocates got organized and infiltrated government. First we deal with Net Discrimination, then a series of tubes and now banning social networks in the last vestige of public spaces. This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Most Libraries in the USA have a CHILDREN’s Section and a seperate ADULT Section – the children’s sections are usually monitored by staff and Security Guards and a filtering software is installed…..

Usually during School hours, children & Teens are NOT allowed in the Libraries…and when they are there there is competition to use the computers for HOMEWORK only. The school computers are equally as valuable for doing Homework or project researches.

Depending on the library – certain age groups under 13 are defined as children – some Libraries consider teens under 18 to be off limits to the adult sections

So, it is possible that even if passed, the bill might not have an extreme effect for most kids or teens – unfortunately, except for the very poor.

Some, whose parents were considering getting a PC but are one of the statistically few holdouts – might now get one due to the very low costs for both PCs and Internet Connections – if this law is passed.

unfortunately, this would leave a relatively few whose income is just too low – even with decreasing costs – to get computers and net connections -
who would be totally deprived of the social networking and chat sites – except if they have friends or relatives they can visit.

Just one more step on our way to fascism. All hail Dear Leader!

What does this mean to companies like tagworld, Kaboodle or even various blog sites like tecchrunch or technorati?

It’s an election year, what do you expect besides feel good crap that doesn’t have any substance accept good newsbites.

Wow. This is completely ridiculous.

What a pile of crap. Anyone supporting this law please tell me what the benefits are – I see none, zero, nada.

Sexual predators ultimately use the phone to contact their victims, so how about banning the use of cell phones (and old fashioned phones now that we’re at it) by teenagers? Unbelievable.

Typical. Congress wants to outlaw the only place guaranteed to have trained social workers monitoring kids’ access to MySpace.

To those who say this is unenforceable, I’m afraid that’s not true at all. It’s very enforceable. Most schools already have some form of filtering/blocking software installed. This law would have the FCC publish a list of sites that have to be blocked, allowing for a one-click (eg. a separate filter category to block the sites on the FCC’s banned list) “solution” for most schools.

[...] Update: 2006/07/28 TEchCrunch reports that the bill has been passed. [...]

They would have to block Wikipedia, Live.com (which is integrating MSN spaces). Also, I could build a Social Networking site based on e-mail alone. Damn, that’s not a bad idea.

Back to the stoneage :-/

This still has to pass the Senate. So at this point it is not enforceable in my current understanding.

I have a hard time imagining that at 400 to 15 in the house it’s going to go down in the Senate.

The courts will strike this down. It will never get enforced, per injuctive relief.

If it does get enforced, then most kids will find ways around it.

It will be, however, another way to arbitrarily arrest and fine people. Just think, soon it will be a crime just to talk to children, unless you’re the parent, and have the courts permission.

Maybe they should just raise kids in vats, so they’ll have total control of their every formative experience.

It occured to me that, as they allow people to find other people based on common interests and associations (ie. classes they’re taking) and because they have chat, mail, and comment capabilities even the popular Blackboard and other online classroom software (like the open source Moodle) would qualify for banning!

Your link to the bill is expired- use
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5319.EH:
(further comments on my blog)

[...] danah boyd has blogged about it, techcrunch has blogged about it. If this legislation is enforced, it will hurt community sites by large – it will affect Finnish companies as well: our US Playray site and Habbo to be sure. [...]

It’s funny how they only attempt to eradicate the problem at the top level instead of the lower level.

Wouldn’t it be more dangerous to have people going to those sites in their own personal space without any supervision? ie. home or friend’s place? At least at schools, it’s public, it’s punishable (I hope).

But hey…it’s all about money, fame and power. Nothing can stop it. :)

What the law and law-makers completely ignore (you’d have to ask an e d u c a t o r) are the phenomenal learning experiences that can be coordinated by creative teachers with online social networks. Teachers who are now using blogging as an instructional strategy are raving about their children’s improved writing, the motivation to want to write (when at home sick, during lunch, during recess), and their engaging comversations with students in other parts of the world.

DOPA learning, not fear!

David – what are you, European?

We hear all this talk about sexual predators on MySpace, but is there any hard data on how many predators actually come in real-world contact with a kid they meet on MySpace that results in a crime?

And does this apply to all schools, including universities? I’ve used Facebook a number of times from school computers to looking up the phone number of a group member who is late to a meeting.

[...] Doug Noon, at Borderland, has posted a powerful statement about the House of Representative’s passage of HR5319, DOPA. The article is called DOPA and the New Bubble. Noon also references a posting at Techcrunch, one of the top technology blogs on the Net. Read US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites. [...]

Thanks for the mention, marshall of my Cool Cat Teacher blog and yes, I did write about this continuing travesty in my blog today.

We need an Online Safety Act (OSA). Predators are not a button you push that can be deleted! It is not that easy. You delete predators with education!

We outlawed drugs, but the only thing that reduces drug us is drug education programs. We outlaw kidnapping, but the only thing keeping kids from getting into cars with strangers is educating them about “stranger danger.” We can outlaw myspace (and a plethora of useful educational tools), but the only way to reduce the number of online victims is with online safety education.

Without access to online tools, the education goes on outside.

The fact is, kids are not myspacing at school now! Most schools block myspace already! Kids are doing this at home. And now that public school educators cannot even access myspace, the predators can say “Yippee! I’m rid of those pesky teachers!”

We currently have NO reporting mechanism to report predators and our only solution is to block myspace. I feel like we’re in the dark ages that we would rather burn blogs than harness them to improve education!

U.S. Constitution: First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Social Networking site are just peaceful assemblies. This is against our right to free speech.

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites [...]

@LaptopHeaven — that’s an interesting spin… I can’t really think of any way to dispute that point, so perhaps that is one approach — to look at social networking sites as peaceful assemblies of folks. Ironically MySpace (commercial though it is) has replaced the notion of the civic space and kids are spending more time connecting with each other online because somehow we’ve let our communities go to pot so that it’s not safe for them to meet in person.

The more restrictions that are replaced on the public commons, the more this slide will continue.

[...] Check out this story about the government trying to protect us from ourselves. Basically, it seems to me that they’re trying to interfere with our lives just a little bit more. [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have people in Washington that understood technology?

I can’t wait for that day to come.

Sign the SAVE YOUR SPACE petition opposing HR5319.

Although HR5319 is titled the “Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)”, the bill is very misleading. What most people don’t realize is that this bill is misleading. If you take a closer look at DOPA, you’ll find that this legislation actually limits your rights to access and express yourself on the Internet instead of “deleting online predators”. But before this legislation becomes law, there are several more steps including getting approval by the Senate and, ultimately, being signed by President George W. Bush.

Unfortunately, the public only sees what the media and politicians tell them. They need to hear from the actual users of social networking sites.

The SAVE YOUR SPACE petition is your chance to be heard and to show the public, the media and the U.S. government the importance and amazing power of social networking sites.

Help us get 1,000,000 signatures in 1 month.

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I don’t think this is going to help with sexual predators at all. First of all, childern are not going to pay attention to this at all, if they want to go to the social networking sites someone will find a way to do it. Secondly, when it comes to sexual predators the child is gennerally not innocent, the child does not use much common sense most of the time, this is what causes them to meet with sexual predators. If we want to start getting rid of sexual predators we should start punishing childern, for being stupid, and meeting with the sexual predators int the first place.

Richard, you’ve got to be kidding. I’m going to presume you are kidding, cause if you were serious that would be so harsh it’s stupid, that opinion there.

yea, I was mainly kidding, but I do think that we have to relize that the child involved is also partly at fault.

For a lot of poorer children whose only internet access is from the library (not having a home computer or net connection), this will make social integration harder. Too poor to have the net at home? No livejournal for you.

Richard Tator- stupid is not ignorant. Ignorance isn’t solved by punishment but by education. Many sexual predators are related to their victims, so children can be victims despite behaving properly. In cases of online predators many think they are meeting someone their age… even if someone does something stupid, the responsibility for a crime still doesn’t rest with the victim. Your attitude is very strange, please reconsider.

US House: No Social Networking Sites at School…

Techcrunch has a good post discussing the recent decision made (lastnight) by the US House. House Resolution 5319 (the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA) was passed lastnight with a vote of 410 to 15. If the resolution does indeed become law, sc…

There are so many anonymous proxies out there. Kids will figure it out a way to do it. I bet kids spend more time on myspace at home than at school or libraries. Ban broadband to the home next? This is a slippery slope. Plus, the brainier ones go to library.

They are doing this for the show. They do not want to be the ones voting “against protecting children.” At least 15 of them voted no.

[...] From Techcrunch, An incredibly vague law, DOPA will require schools and libraries to block access to a potentially huge range of sites on the internet. The goal is to protect children from adult predators. Sites that must be blocked include those that allow people to post profiles, include personal information and allow “communication among users.” [...]

[...] Instead of condemning Israel for their recent mistake of killing 4 UN observers, they vetoed the UN movement which the rest of the Security Council supported. Thanks, guys. I am glad to be part of a country that just takes the blow, after losing a UN truce-coordinator in the “mistake”. But that’s not all folks. Recently, the good ol’ USA decided they want to retain control of the Internet for at least another year. This, combined with the fear-mongering DOPA bill the US Senate just passed (A 410-15 vote?) makes it very difficult to consider the States a progressive country. [...]

the roll call on the bill…
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll405.xml

Given the very negative response to DOPA in the comments section, I wonder what is driving the politicians to have such overwhelming support for the law. I understand that no politician wants to vote against protecting children, but they must not realize that they are actually voting against engaging learning opportunities.

That may be the case here, but if you check out the comments even at Digg on this topic there are a shocking number of people commenting in defense of DOPA. I was really surprised.

I’d urge everyone opposed to this to contact their senators, don’t just complain about it in some comments section to a blog (not saying you are, just encouraging some meaningful follow-through).

Ok, now working in a library, the use of myspace here is huge… and mandating this will only get the American Library Association in on this… they are the reason why CIPA has failed several times… so I think that they’ll end up having this fail as well… not to mention that mandating what people can do is never a good thing.

[...] DOPA, is yet another example of foolish law making, restricting freedom in what is supposed to be the land of the free. First the gov’t seeks to ban online poker, now social networking sites in schools and libraries. Poker seemed to be driven by lack of tax revenue from offshore poker sites, but most popular SNs in the US are US based. So this seems to be based more on the governments desire to have Americans believe that we need the government to protect us. Banning the entire scope of SN sites is foolish. This would have been like banning all P-to-P technologies when Napster was the hot issue. The problem is that the Government cannot discriminate on an individual basis, so they either have to make the law fully applicable or the law cannot pass. This is a seriously overbroad law, it will impact all social networking sites that do not have sexual predators as well those that do. This means that a site like FaceBook (I’m assuming) would be banned from high schools, that’s pretty terrible. My Gf’s younger brother will be attending Duke this fall and thanks to FB he already has 50 or so friends at Duke. That’s pretty helpful (of course, he went to a private High School, and he probably never used FB at school, so this isn’t the best example). The gov’t however, only manages to see potential problems, and for some reason thinks that it is their responsibility to protect people from these problems even when people can do a perfectly fine job of protecting themselves. If individual schools want to restrict access to sites I don’t have a problem with that. If schools want to block things that will hinder their ability to push their academic agenda, that’s fine, but a wide-sweeping ban is irrational. The more the government restricts our ability to access the internet, the more we will fall behind in out technological advancement. I’m not sure why the government thinks restricting the internet is a good idea, when allowing full access will enable us to fully optimize the economics of the web, which will make our country richer, increase employment, and help ensure out place in the global economy. [...]

I have no problem with schools and libraries banning the use of certain websites (MySpace, etc.), since, after all, those aren’t personal computers, but rather ones meant for educational use. If they were purchased by taxpayers’ money, they should be put to use for something other than posting a personal profile and trying to add/be added by as many friends as possible.

However, I have a problem with the vagueness of the law. Many bills are passed into law that aren’t specific enough, IMO; it’s just like the current controversy over patents that are granted. Things like this need to be more specific.

As it stands, I think this bill/law should be thrown out, and we should let school districts and libraries filter out websites (as they have been doing) on their own basis. They likely will know what is sensible to filter out and what isn’t, and don’t need an overbearing law to force their hand, so to speak.

[...] But it troubles me, Tom, when I read today that the government has passed US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). The act looks at how much a “commericial social networking site and/or chat room”: [...]

[...] Discussions of the possible ramifications of a DOPA-ified world can be found at TechCrunch and Weblogg-ed, among many other places. [...]

@Marshall: After a quick look through your Digg link it is pretty surprising how many people support this bill.

I know it’s a smaller community, but the folks over at the Newsvine page on this topic are pretty dead set against it, (although some wouldn’t mind a bill that just restricts the use of MySpace ;)

I think the solution is to get rid of libraries. In my town we just spent $50M on a library and, for that money, we could have purchased 3 computers and free internet access for every person in the city.

I would be more shocked if the vote hadn’t been so lopsided. Congress doesn’t care about protecting your adstream and how readers find you … and I’d be pissed if they did.

Why not just ban Myspace, Friendster, and chatrooms from the internet? If the government thinks it’s a bad thing for kids, why stop at the library and school level?

Since US still controls the internet, they can do it!

[...] For still more check out Techcrunch and CNN. [...]

[...] More from ZDNET, Rex Hammock, and TechCrunch, all of it aggregated at DOPAWatch. | Email It | Digg It | Del.icio.us It [...]

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites Rather than teaching people to swim, its always easier just to close down the pool. (tags: web2.0 censorship politics usa) [...]

So will the banned sites that allow “communication among users” include their campaign Web sites?

It’s only going to get worse before it gets better.

There’s a whole generation of politicians out there who still don’t really grasp the internet in its many forms. They just don’t “get it”. Would you ask your grandfather about his opinion of various parts of the internet? And then base legislation on it?

They are so easily swayed by the usual persuasiveness of people who either have contrary interests or who have distorted ideas of security.

“We’re doing it for the kids!” Another flag for the ignorant to wave. Sigh.

[...] US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight (tags: privacy security internet Politics policy) Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

First off
LaptopHeaven (Comment #26) had a very good point. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights gurantees us the freedom to assemble. MySpace is an assembly of teenagers.

Secondly, teenagers already have multiple ways around the current filters. Teenagers can already easily get around current filters and will just as easily if not more easily get around any new ones. Sure, the filters will block major proxy sites but what will stop them from making private undetectable ones?

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites (tags: dopa dc:12 library) [...]

[...] Read the bill. Read a few postings about this. Think about it a bit. Take other people’s opinions into consideration, even those with views different than yours. Let’s talk about this. What do you think about DOPA? What do you think about my letter (below)? If not DOPA, then what? Is this really a problem that needs federal legislation to govern? Are there more serious risks to our students that we should spend time discussing? Has the MySpace threat been completely blown out of proportion? [...]

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites (tags: techcrunch myspace government education censorship) [...]

Sexual predation of children existed long before the internet and will exist long after this ‘ban” goes into effect. It’s an election year stunt that does nothing tangible. But hey, what do we expect from these no-nothings in government for the last ten years? Leadership on real issues? ha….

The idea of this being a “freedom to assemble” is interesting, but I’m not sure that angle will work. We have a right to bear arms, too, but we can’t legal “bear” them in schools. Students/kids have limited rights because their protection and safety is more important. BUT, that said, I believe DOPA will do a lot more harm than good.

Our district already blocks MySpace and I support that block, but a blanket ban of all sites that have profiles? Well, so much for my technology club’s blog and bbs…

Besides SaveYourSpace.org, which I’m not convinced will have an impact but I “signed” anyway, what can we do?

[...] Yesterday on my private list Kevin Marks posted: The House banned MySpace (and arguably much more) use in schools because of fear-mongering about predators 410-15. This is analogous to banning all restaurants and bars in DC because congressmen are bribed by lobbyists in them. More detail here. [...]

On July 28, Peter wrote, “I have no problem with schools and libraries banning the use of certain websites (MySpace, etc.), since, after all, those aren’t personal computers, but rather ones meant for educational use. If they were purchased by taxpayers’ money, they should be put to use for something other than posting a personal profile and trying to add/be added by as many friends as possible.”

As a librarian, I’d like to make a couple of points in response to your post.

First, we tend to forget that young people have First Amendment rights, too, and that there’s a lenghty body of caselaw affirming a young person’s right to access constitutionally protected free speech. I don’t know about you, but I’m not comfortable violating these rights just for the purpose of making an example out of myspace.com.

Second, young people are faced with a whole host of complicated issues in their day-to-day lives, and, truth be told, many times they simply don’t feel comfortable bringing these things up with their parents. Instead, they prefer to interact with their peers, and this is one of the benefits of social networking sites. Pretending that these difficult issues don’t exist, or wishing that they’d go away doesn’t change the fact that kids will always trust those in their own age group more than they’ll trust their parents or teachers.

Third, while public libraries are funded by taxpayer money, no one group has any more influence over how that money is spent than any other. Libraries serve a very broad constituency, and not every one of them uses library collections–electronic or print-based–for “educational” purposes, whatever that means. Would you say that using the library’s computers to apply for a job, book a flight, or set up a free email account qualify as “educational”? And if we set limits on what constitutes “educational” when it comes to online resources, do we also apply this to our books as well? “Sorry, sir, but since we’ve decided that non-fiction serves no apparent educational purpose, you’ll need to look elsewhere for that copy of ‘The DaVinci Code’.”

Sorry to go on, but I’m afraid that DOPA is another example of a solution looking for a problem that really doesn’t exist. The last thing I want is the federal government telling me or my kids what they can and cannot access on the Internet.

I was surprised and disappointed that the vote was 410-15. Many of those who oppose DOPA do so because they believe that children should be educated and not restricted. I agree that they should be educated, but let us face it, not all parents do their job and the parents who are doing their job are left with schools and libraries that are not doing their job.

I can not speak on behalf of the US, but I know that surprisingly some Canadian public libraries and schools do not monitor children’s internet access nor do they have filters in place. We were all teens once. I keep hearing the same comments. “Parents do your job.” Well I ask you this, “How many of you rebelled against your parents?”

No matter how much we take care of our children and educate them, it only takes them making one unhealthy choice to put them at risk. You can educate your child untill you are all blue in the face. The truth is that children don’t often think of the consequences of unhealthy choices. If DOPA will save just one child, don’t you think the bill is worth it?

I do want to add that while I support the bill, I do think that the legislation should be rewritten so it does not block sites such as Yahoo and Google. I think they need to better determine what sites will be blocked before passing the law.

These are just my thoughts!

Rose, I understand you desire to block some sites, but you end up with the same conundrum that has vexed the filtering companies for too long. How can you possibly police the list of websites when they are so easy to create? It’s like a game of whack-a-mole, and if you whack MySpace, something (or more likely many more things) will pop up in its place. Filtering is not the solution. If we are really and truly concerned with keeping predators away from the children, perhaps we need to think of new solutions. Start with a blank sheet of paper and start over. Technology can solve many problems. Kidnappers used to use vans to grab kids. We didn’t ban kids from vans. The people (in part aided by government) created the amber alert. The goal of any solution should be to make the medium (in the case of kidnapping it was the van, but in this case it’s the Internet at large) as difficult as possible for the would be predators to use it for evil, not to keep the kids away from something that has so much potential and goodness. Over-reaching legislation is never, ever the answer.

Just my 2 cents.

[...] pm Sat Jul 29th 2006 in Huntsville DOPA – Write your Senator Saturday 29 July 2006 @ 9:16 pm Filed Under: Libraries/Info Sci, Ramblings, TechTechcrunchsummarizes DOPA in more detail. [...]

DOPA passes the House…

The House of Representatives passed the “Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006″ (DOPA), which could have a tragic impact on schools, libraries, and educators in general. It will require these entities to enforce “a policy of internet safety for m …..

DC to 2.0: Wake Up! (DOPA)…

The writing on the wall Silicon Valley woke up this morning, rubbed it’s collective eyes and looked at a pretty big number. It wasn’t YouTube’s valuation or the number of parties that Valleywag attended the previous night; it was this:…

DC to 2.0: Wake Up! (DOPA)…

The writing on the wall Silicon Valley woke up this morning, rubbed it’s collective eyes and looked at a pretty big number. It wasn’t YouTube’s valuation or the number of parties that Valleywag attended the previous night; it was this:…

how about the ims? people also meet each others via ims.

[...] (Update 30/07) other sources: Techcrunch, [...]

[...] I don’t usually discuss legislative issues in this blog, but I can’t let the US House of Representatives’ decision to block social networking sites and chat rooms pass by without comment.  It’s not just the decision itself that frightens me; it’s the fact that it passed 410 to 15.  If only 3.5% of people understand the stupidity of such legislation, and have the backbone to say so out loud, we’re in big trouble… [...]

amazing yes…
and also I found really good comments in this threat ;-)

However, my question is: Why parents do not spent QUALITY of time EDUCATING their OWN children?! TEACH THEM TO BE CRITIC !!!!

Excuse me readers, but kids are not doom!, as a matter of fact, they are a lot smarter than some “adults”. What I had found, specially in the USA are LONELY kids, which makes a difference, and should put you to think.

In this regulation, in case that actually out there are TONS of sexual predators will not eradicate them, isn’t it?! The only thing that practically this law is doing is to reduce the use of potential tools, that schools might use to really teach our kids to use their common sense.

Why not POLITICIANS use their time and “knowledge” in resolve really important matters as for example, how to promote family integration, or in other words, how the state can support initiatives to support parents, that work, to spend more time in educating their kids and still keep with a decent life.

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[...] Other thoughts on this: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Learning Now [...]

[...] I don’t know what to think about THIS story. On the one hand it’s censorship that should be left to the school districts to decide what they want to do. On the other hand is my hatred of most things Myspace…so I’m torn. [...]

[...] Here is a good post about DOPA.  What will this mean for my plans of blogging in Sociology?  It certainly wouldn’t be like our government to over regulate something most of them don’t understand.  My school has already blocked access to sites like myspace and facebook.  Good or bad……you make the call. [...]

[...] DOPA is a particularly dangerous law for this reason. A lot of people who can’t afford home Internet in the States use it in their public libraries; there are blogs run by homeless people, for example, giving a unique insight into their lives. Unfortunately, DOPA means that these people can no longer have access to this communications medium; although they can still use the Internet, removing social networking systems and discussion boards effectively strips them of a voice and turns them into consumers rather than active participants. The merits of its intentions can be debated, but it is, in practice, evil. [...]

look i think its bootie that we kids in high school cannot get on myspace we are responisble enough to get on it!!!! and who ever knows how tho get around the schools setings please e-mail me at redhotcutie_09@yahoo.com
:) thanks if u e-mail me!! lol J/p :)

[...] More great info about this bill fround on Librarian in Black, here, here and probably a lot of other places [...]

THIS IS FREAKING LAME! it isn’t myspace’s fault that some kids are dumb enough to meet people they meet online. it is the kid’s fault. and because some kids are stupid, all of us are being punished. LAME! i think this new law sucks and anyone who thinks it’s a good idea should do a little research before supporting something so dumb.

Somehow people are still getting on myspace at my school even though it’s blocked..If anyone know how to get on please e-mail me at meltedhearts90@yahoo.com

Blocking this stuff at a school library is fine, but not fine in a dorm! Especially when this is a school that offers family housing (unnamed graduate and medical school blocks youtube, myspace).

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stupid you block it then they will just find more and more ways around it and if they are dumb enought to meet the people i say let them theyll learn or they wont.

IT IS THE KIDS THAT ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO TALK TO AN ABSOLUTE STRANGE AND WONT TO TALK AND MEET THEM!!! I HAVE A MYSPACE.. AND I KNOW EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON MY FRIENDS LIST… U CHOOSE WHO UR FRIENDS ARE. IF U DONT KNOW THE PERSON THAT WANTS TO BE UR FRIEND THEN DENY THEM ACCESS TO UR PAGE AND FRIENDLIST. DONT BE MAD AT MYSPACE BE MAD AT THE CHILD BECAUSE THEY ARE THE UNEDUCATED ONES WHO ARE WILLING TO TALK TO ANYONE!! THEY ARE ALSO MOSTLY WHITE KIDS!!! HOW MANY BLACK DO U SEE TALKING TO ONLINE PREDATORS??? EDUCATE YOUR DUMB WHITE KIDS CAUSE THEY ARE THE ONE TALKING TO THESE NASTY MEN!!

You people who are saying “Blocking it is stupid.” well, you’re right and wrong. Blocking it won’t help, but it won’t solve the problem.

So, the people chose a sensible way to ignore myspace and blocked it.
Leaving it open would mean more children browsing myspace instead of doing something important.

This is all I hear through 1/2 of my school time is myspace. Everyone things it’s one huge deal but it isn’t.
Just because YOU have people on your list you know ~All or 1.~ Doesn’t mean others do aswell. Which makes it THEIR fault it’s blocked.

i think that is so retarded.. if we have free time at school i believe that we should be able to get on Myspace at school also! people under 18 can have myspace and be safe.. set your profile to private for only your friends and only add the people you know!!!!

[...] Why post this then? Well, it got me thinking, and I don’t claim this to terribly insightful, that maybe the whole Net Neutrality debate is not the biggest danger to the internet. Maybe when companies and schools start following this example and shutting their employees and students out (as the government is already working on), and since I’m guessing that’s where a lot of people use the internet most, that will be a huge hit to many web sites and communities? I’m thinking that wouldn’t be a good thing. What do you think? [...]

myspace should be allowed and im prepared to pettion
u people suck if you wont allow myspace
most people are old enough to no not to meet people
its not a distraction i say alow my space.com

i agree with kristen

Okay, I agree that MySpace should NOT be allowed at school. Why should schools allow you to use their resources and connection to visit a site like MySpace. There is frankly nothing educational or remotely intelligent about MySpace or it’s users.

Now just because a school doesn’t have to let you use MySpace does NOT mean there aren’t ways around their filters.

http://www.proxymy.com can by pass my Community college’s internet rules & filters so in my Spare time on campus I can access MySpace.

Yeah I also use browse at college to go to myspace while at work. http://www.browseatcollege.com. Also works for youtube etc.

well i need alil help getn on myspace…..we have this program that blocks vertually every thing….and if you all could mail me w/ a program that could bypass it then thnx….

This is ludicrous!

All this is is an interest group (always known for reliable information, I know) composed of dictatorial parents trying to protect their kids from the world. Parents, chat sites for kids exist because the kids can’t turn anywhere else! Kids commit suicide, kids turn to drugs, kids turn to crime. And now your are taking away this alternative?

They are doing this to be social. To keep still at least SOME social health. And you want to remove it?

I have read these comments. I also agree that it needs to be able to be monitored. But banning is not the way to go.

I am a 22 year old republican. I am this way because of my beliefs, and my hard life. Not a life of “oh, I don’t have a lot of money”, but rather “I have needed new shoes for two years now, and I have to live off of canned vegitables, and sometimes not even that for two months”. I never had any social health until I found out “Their are others who have gone through it” and learned what having fun meant. And you are not trying to remove “Potential predators”. You are trying to remove some teenagers only friends. friends from clear over the world. Do you not think of those who have no one, and would rather die then keep living?

You have no idea who you are f***ing with. Grow up. Your children aren’t in bubbles. they are ALWAYS in danger.

Oh, and as my last rant, a family member is more likely to molest your child then somone looking on-line.

what they need to focus on is that this country is about freedom of speech,although not much freedom of speech or anything else as a matter of fact,i may still be a minor but this does get to me that our higher officials will limit the use of internet access by not even looking at what thy are blocking,now we never think just catogorize things by what their “thought” nature may or may not be,but to this point there are a growing number of site unblockers that have helped students get to myspace,this is a fault on their behalf for most of the unblockers let intruders into the main system so that our school files, and our files at that can be veiwed,changed or taken at will,but this arguement goes back to the thought of should we even have the internet at all?

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I don’t know what you all talk about when you are on My Space. But I have tracked what my teenager talks about and it is sex, drinking, drugs, & parties. Just about every My Space site she goes on has pictures of provocative women in all states of underdress, pot leaves swirling around, picutes of cocaine, foul language, and very graphic talk of sex. They should NOT be one these web sites in School.

When you are blocked at school I would suggest using this site: http://www.lameproxy.com
It seems to be the best proxy site out there. And should get you to myspace, etc… Fuck this nazi shit of blocking sites…

ustedes dan lastima son unos cochones de mierda ojala q el q lea esta mierda se muera ,,,malidtos cabrones ,,,,u have no life trying to block myspace from schools but to tell u the truth we will always have infinity proxies bitches ,,,doesnt matter how many are blocked more will keep coming up I am sure of it I am doing some new proxy which will last a while before it gets blocked so c ya mother fuckas ,,,,,,and I am prud of my space q viva TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL ,,,,,,chao

I am on at school right now and I am subject to predators as soon as I click on “Firefox” so I dont think blocking it does much…as for being off task well I am right now so what’s it matter what site I’m off task on? hahah Ironic how I was searching for a proxy when I came across this

cmon

I really don’t think they should pass this law… I think, that one, it should be a schools choice… and it really doesn’t matter what they block, because there are websites that can get around the block. I’m go to school and I know many students who get around the block easily. And, besides, how is the government going to enforce this one?

how do i get on it when school blocks it.

i think yall should let student be sble to get on myspace

fuck all of yall pussys!!!!!!

u guys cant tel wat 2 do

u wanna no wat im not even from america so get stuffd

that’s not right

Hey, if you wanna play games on any school website just go to http://www.pmgarcade.com on a un-blocked computer and get directions

put it back on please some people can get on at home so please put back in hartford if ya want to talk to me come to bellizzi middle ask for sheaquan
daniels only goverment i want to talk to email loovee43@yahoo.com

This is retarded.. what we do in our spare time is are buisness not yours.! It’s not like were going to porn websites.! You guys suck>! Nobody blocked this site.!!! If we get our sites blocked then you should get yours.! This is the stupidest thing ever.! If we have time that we want to spend ( like rite now for me ) and we want to spend it on Myspace.. or other stuff.. you shouldnt have a say in it.!! Get a life.. and stay off the internet.. you dont rule us kids.! Your probley a loser.. who has no life.. so you decided to make are suck.! well SUCK IT.!

you shouldn’t block myspace that is an entertainment for teens to have fun

It is very stupid. If they ban myspace sites or other (hi5, yahoo, etc) it is easy to access filtered or blocked sites via proxy server or direct online web proxy like: http://www.surfinter.net or http://www.vipsurfer.com ! It is useless…

i think that this is stuipd but that just me saying that i think that kids should fight for myspace

i think this is fuckin gay dat myspace is blocked at skools like omg manthis gay…lol

FUCK THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE LIKE THIS. WERE GONNA GET ON IT ANYWAYYSSSS SO THEY MIGHT AS WELL JUST LET US GET ON..

!!!

man this is bullshit….myspace didnt do shit…were goona get on it anyways

There is a blog about this topic w\email links to your congressman and topics on banning myspace for good: http://www.keepoutofmyspace.blogspot.com/
most kids are to ignorant and will respond like they did here, cussing a lot which destroys any credibility they may have. The adults are winning this battle, Myspace is slowly geting banned ib schools, libraries, churches and soon maybe even homes.

Fuck those who think they can stop us and leaving comments like this is not immature or ignorant it the expression of our rights. Adults are old and out of our generation of the high speed information highway. They just need to stay out of this and let MySpace exist everywhere. Old ass people kids are the future not yall we’ll be the ones making good decisions not shitful decisions like ya’lls. Peace out from da stalker :) Oh yeah and there a shitload of ways to get to myspace from alot of place even school you just gota know how to hack into stuff be SMART!

They can use a proxy to bypass this very simple:

http://www.proxycastle.com

uhh, my myspace is TOTALLY good. NOTHING bad on it. now, i dont put ANY information about where i live, or anything i should have up there. its just a place where me and my friends can talk and have profiles. just because stupid people get in trouble and run away with 40+ year old men, then dont even know doesnt mean myspace should be hidden from EVERYONEE. i have a good myspacee and im getting punnished for their doing.

Hey this sucks. Anyone have a proxy that acctually works I have a few..but my school blocked them try them out though.
http://www.surferduderanch.com
http://www.hidebehind.net

im a 13 year old student i have a opinion to voice in this conflict as well, im not retarded i am not gonna meet up with some guy over the internet, Im not gonna look up porn on a computer for 2 resons, its for sad people and the computers get searched, Im not gonna post like where i live or my real name or email adress on the internet. The schools treat us like we are all retarded these days. A failing student isent helped by teachers but shut off, A emotionaly dusturbed child is sent to a alternative learning center aka ALC as a punishment for having abusive parents or such. I just want to look up stuff about WOW occasionally. By allowing me to use the internet freely im not going to get my self kidnaped. We had to watch a video on child abductions at school and they dident talk about how stupid they were acting or anything like that they just repeated the phrase “It was super scary” over and over again.What does this have to do with blocking games and such and looking at myspace when we know were not gonna act like retards. The principal at our school personally went on myspace and started to look up names of student from a-z and who ever had a myspace was suspended for 10 days?!? What does it have to do with school! Now its just HAVING a myspace! If you ask me i think the principal was invading privacy and stalking us online and should not even have the athourity to suspend us.

I think myspace shouldnt be blocked in schools , coz children try to access it in free time so whats the big deal ehh?

I recon kids should get access to site via http://www.myschoolproxy.com and get thru in.works for me

It is useless to block myspace in schools. They can easy access it via http://www.msproxy.net It is working fine.

Get to know myspace, be familar with the whole internet. If you had one, and worked on it for a little bit, you’d be just like all the teens wanting to get on theirs at school. And just because you block it at school doesnt mean kids arent going to get on at home anyway. Myspace has privacy settings, and blocking tools to help hide teens from
“sexual predators” and its not like Every single kid is stupid enough to talk to people they don’t know. Get a myspace, try it out, its not a bad place. And NEWSFLASH people—kids can get on myspace from schools and libraries any way. Kids are accually smart, and should be trusted with myspace.

Kids should be trusted. And People trying to bring myspace down in schools should check out myspae for themselves.

If kids are stupid enough to give out their info, then its their fault sexual predators got them. But kids are intelligent, and they do set their profiles to private.

This whole thing is stupid, at least at school teens are supervised on myspace, at home is where the real problem is with parental supervision.

Its usless blocking myspace. Get over yourselves.

KIDS SHOULD BE TRUSTED WITH MYSPACE!!!

I don’t think they should take myspae away from schools and libraries. Why would teens at schools do bad things online while theyre being monitored by teachers in the room?? seriously, its more of a problem at home unsupervised. Kids in my opinion are smarter than adults judging by this article. FYI myspace is a very safe place, with privacy settings and such, and maybe even more safe than malls, public places, and maybe even schools. Think about it for a minute. Check out myspace for yourselves.

You can access myspace from school via online web proxy server, hide your IP address and bypass firewall restrictions:

http://www.hidemyway.com (you can LOGIN to MySpace and access your profile easy from school, working on 13.11.2006!!!!!)

http://www.msproxy.net and http://www.surfinter.net

If this is not working please contact webmaster and we will setup other proxies before school ban it.

ENJOY

Dave…

Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future…

HEY GUYS WOW ITS WORKING TRY THIS CGI BASED PROXY

http://WWW.MYSCHOOLPROXY.COM

I’d like to say that 1) I absolutely agree with the fact that all workplaces and schools blocking myspace is, lightly said, unfair, meaningless, and downrite ignorant. I’d like to argue that doing so is, in a sense, an invasion upon first amendment rights. Freedom of speech? Myspace is an indirect form of speech-communicating with friends and familars. Yes, some students and teens may use myspace and related sites for talking with complete strangers, but that is NO excuse to punish all for these people….what they choose to do is on themselves…it should not fall on the locations where they use myspace. Secondly, 2) whoever said that video games, televison, and the internet is “poisening” today’s youth is full of shit. These aspects do not influence teens as negatively as adults would like to believe. Adults are just DYING to find reasons to blame their own neglect of their children on other sources. Remember, it’s not these things that taint children today, it’s a lack of parenting. In short, the blockage of mypace is pointless and well, retarded. If I could only urge all high school students nation wide to sign a petition…..hmmm….*ponders*

Thanks, but no thanks for the dumbass decision,
Anonymous

omg none of these work my school is MAJORLY smart with all these proxys! anyone got one that is sure to work?

I THINK FETCH.NU WILL WORK FOR TOUR SCHOOL IF NOT GET BAK AT ME

find a web site so i can get on myspace from my school like everything is block

myspace is just to keep up with friend i honestly the people for blocking myspace in school are ignorant

http://www.unblockmyspace.ws it goes in people

w/e.

bogus.

shit

I use http://www.hidemyway.com to access myspace from school !!!

this is all stupid. being on websites dont make peolpe bad……some kids just wanna jave fun and have some free time…….they hafe to wrok all day and i mean even in stuyhalls they should atleast be able to do what they want…………. and if you took a vote of the students at school they would tell u how preshured they are……….jut hear me out and understand

This is so Stupid I think they should let us have a myspace!!!!! find a way and post it…>

hey my school has almost all the proxies blocked and whenever i find a new one they block it and it sucks cuase we have our own laptops and they block everything on those too so if anyone knows any really good proxies pleaseee email mee ::: misa3121@yahoo.com

i think that myspace is not that important to have in school. I mean please do you people really have to worry about myspace that much that your going to complain about not checking it in school. I guess you really dont have a life then. Wait and go home to worry about myspace. You should worry about more important things than how its dumb to have have myspace blocked at school. WTF

hey my computer teacher at school has cut all of the proxysites i know and we like to go on bebo………..so if youz have any sites can you hook it up thanks……….bpaku@hatopaora.school.nz

I think it’s really silly that MySpace is blocked at school. I am 15 and would really wish to have MySpace back on the school sites. To be honest, i’m spending more of my time looking for unblocker sites than I would spend on MySpace if it wasn’t blocked. I think children our age have a right to their own freedom to do what they wanna do, when they wanna do it. To be perfectly honest, teenagers and young adults are less vunerable viewing websites like MySpace and Bebo at school than they are at home where some parents have no control over which sites are viewed and for how long.

I’m not some silly little girl who gives her email address and phone number to some random person. Or tell them where I live. And most children wouldn’t. Only some idiots would and at the end of the day, if something bad happens to them, it’s their own fault, although I wouldn’t wish anything bad on anyone :)

Thanks for reading and in all honesty, I hope some dumbass teachers come looking on this and read my post cause they need a reality check.

Start living in the real world people!

Xxxx

I think it’s really silly that MySpace is blocked at school. I am 15 and would really wish to have MySpace back on the school sites. To be honest, i’m spending more of my time looking for unblocker sites than I would spend on MySpace if it wasn’t blocked. I think children our age have a right to their own freedom to do what they wanna do, when they wanna do it. To be perfectly honest, teenagers and young adults are less vunerable viewing websites like MySpace and Bebo at school than they are at home where some parents have no control over which sites are viewed and for how long.

I’m not some silly little girl who gives her email address and phone number to some random person. Or tell them where I live. And most children wouldn’t. Only some idiots would and at the end of the day, if something bad happens to them, it’s their own fault, although I wouldn’t wish anything bad on anyone :)

Thanks for reading and in all honesty, I hope some dumbass teachers come looking on this and read my post cause they need a reality check.

Start living in the real world people!

Xxxx

I really think I should be able to get on myspace. I use it to communicate with my mentor for my internship. THAT IS EDUCATIONAL. fjaskdfjasdf

Try http://www.schoolsproxy.com

SHould be able to get you into myspace.

this is very stupid because they’ll end of finding a way to unblock it or jus a way around it which means spending more money on the website they are using to get to the website that it is blocking why spend money on something unnecessary and spend it on something that is going to help us an at that you cant stop anyone from getting to any website regardless its sooo stupid

Why is everyone calling each other names and bitching at each other? opitions are everyones. The problem is they can’t trust us if they give it back to us. Insted of doing our work thats what we will do and we all know it and so do they. Stand up for your rights and complain to the government not the school. They dont control it and never will, the first law/ admemdent states freedom of speech and assembly. Myspace is an online assembly which entertains as well as informs us all about everythign we want and need to know about our world. From music to government and news. We all want it and need it ask your teachers if they have a myspace and see what they say.

-Julie

hey my fukin gay ass skool blocked sum websites and dey wont let me go on dem…………..if anyone knos how to get to dem e-mail me at juanci1992@hotmail.com……i really appreciate it

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Your gay up the but mannnnnn….. myspace is the best your probably just saying that because you say screw the world every day and you have a problem with your life and someone made fun of you on myspace because your gayer than gay you frekin pus. f—- you

i hope you took this nicely because its coming from my heart!!!! no hard feelings-0——————Thanks anyway fu—ing gaywad

just joking

Block them in schools, kids are not their to socialize. At home monitor them most kids don’t have the maturity to use it correctly.
Visit http://www.theparentsedge.com to help

I LOVE MYSPACE ITS THE ONLY WAY I KEEP IN CONTACT WITH MY FRIENDS BUT YEAH AND MY PROFILES PRIVATE TO EVRE1 EXCEPT THE PPL I ACCEPT SO IM SAFE BUT THIS IS A VIOLATION OF OUR RIGHTS SAYS THE CONSTITUION!!!!! I OBJECT TO THIS BILL!!!!!!!!!!

umm i think its retarded that the scool block myspace beucsae ome people say that kids go on myspace for porn well at school if u tpe in google porn and look throught google for some porn the pages are not blocked so the only reason y they block my space i because they dont wwant the kids to be talking to each other well they havent block aim yet so we still talk to each other

Why are all of you people getting so uptight about the schools blocking Myspace.com. You act like it’s your life and you have to be on there 24/7. Here’s an idea, get a life. You all look pathetic coming on these message boards complaining that Myspace has been blocked. You’re at school to learn, not dwell on myspace the whole time. If you’re going to do that do it at home and not whine about not being able to get on for a certain period of time of your life.

fuck thaT SHIT HOW CAN U DO THAT JUST SOME DOES IT DOES THAT MEAN EVER ONE IS LIKE THAT

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http://www.everyonesconnected.com
http://www.fishswimfast.com
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http://www.birdsflyfast.com
http://www.ia3.net
http://www.myspaceproxy1.com
http://www.eatmoreblueberries.com
http://www.purplebanana.com
theres more but i cant memeber them all now

That just is not right doing that to us kids. why is it a good iddea to do that to myspace. If you do it to myspace you can at least let uis play runescape in school……??????????????

u r all dumb fuck heads ur talking on a government website nd giving them more proxys to block u stupid fuckers and as far as im conserned the government can go suck sum hairy balls

how da fuck r u guys fanna blck myspace it’s da only website that iz fun people go to myspace for a reason and that reason iz for to calm people down when their stressed and to have fun and other reason by da mothafuckin school thingy blockin websites it makes us mad cause every lil thing we click on sum stupid ass shit pops up and says that this site blck and that ain’t fair if ya bastards think it iz right to dat then go ahead but wat goes around comes around

Ok now, I would have to say that I am half and half on the subject. Schools should not block myspace. But kids should be responsible enough to not go on the site if they are in school because you are not there to sit online. You can do that at home. You get one chance in High School and College. You need to make the right choices for your future.

this is the dumbest shit ever fuck the gorvernment I hope you all wake up read this and then commit suicide including the police you smelly fuckin pieces of pork I dont give a fuck what the laws say we will find a way to get on myspace even if it is blocked the stupid fuckin government cares more about blocking myspace and making weed illegal than they do about stuff that really matters FUCK YOU GORNMENT

Any way yaw sum dum asses tryna prevent kids 4m usin myspace shit yaw blockin erythang else yaw fuckin lame doin dat 2 all dezz damn kids yaw need to stop sayn its the fuckin rapist yaw da fuckin rapist dats y yaw dont wont us on der because we found out

dude this shyt is fukin reatrded, teachers shouldt even care wut we do er talk about on myspace. so fukin fine a way to un-block all the sites that teens wanna go on, fuckers!

i need to get into myspace!!

im at scchool does anyone know how to get in from school?

this is so gay i need a way of getting in!

None of these proxies actually work for my school. Whenever I try one it says it’s blocked because of “anonymizers” or something to that effect. I am not doing it just to get on myspace and all that. What is really sucky is that even when I’m doing a research project or something, our filter cuts it all out because of “porn” and “forums”. I’m surprised this site actually slipped through. Does anyone have one that can skip through it? The filter is called SMARTFILTER. Which it’s a piece of crap because most students have to do research at home because “porn” pops up when you try to look at pictures…

hey i have a way of getting around school blocks go to http://www.fetch.nu and type in the website you want to go to and it takes you there works on all websits including myspace

unblock myspace or a bunch of kids are going to say fuck school and just wanna go home and fail school.

My school doesn’t block http://www.hostingproxy.com just about the only one left that works from a huge list I’ve been trying

sniff my hole lol

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The most retarded law of all, this one!

Check out BBscience.org for a proxy to access myspace and some free games…

Ok i can get where people are comming from with that whole preditor thing and me being 17 i aslo get why kids my age are mad because they can’t get to these sites at school……. but this is what i have to say……….. this is the new day and age and people use these sites for many reasons…… to stay connected to there friends and to meet new people are the most commen…… but there are those that know how to use these sights safely, and then there are the people that are just don’t……..most older kids know that personal info over the net is just not something that you do…………but with profiles you have the option to put a location, an age, and just about any thing privit on there……………… I think that we should just let the kids have chance………. even if you do a little bit of restricting that would be a lot better that what we have going on.

this not the only site but urbanchat and many other but if we wanna ruin olur lives let us and i say anyway fuck the government u are ruin my life and i have the freedom of speech, and other things so….. fuck blocking web sites

I think that kids in high school need to be able to grow socialy and not have all this damn info shoved down their throats at once. I believe if you finish the work and have free time kids should be able to access myspace or even if they can’t do that at least play games. I go to a computer based school all of our work is done on the computers which we are allowed to take home. Which is really good for the kids who don’t have internet but have friends or go to places that have wifi or wireless connections. We can’t even get on those type of sites out of school. I understand people might abuse this but let them be the ones to show for their grades and deal with the concencuinces…sorry if any of these words are miss spelled.

myspace should not be blocked its a perfectly normal thing to talk to friends hey go to kproxy it works really good

Prompt there are programs of the help poor in the field of health protection? WBR LeoP

wow how fucking gay,im sure some guy well rape mature male 17 year olds

okay ive been looking litterly for an hour and a half no proxy cites work,the smart filter bess eddition is gay as shit and now blocks all websites listed as Anonymizers,id try to hack into the school and bypass the filtering myself and reroute everything if i wasnt so sure id get caught,ive tried everything and nothing works so im beat,this sux so much ass for kids who DONT have computers at home,evan though i still now a shitload about em

myspace was the my only communication to a shit load a freinds,and now thats gone this sux balls for poor people

I really dont see a point in this. Sex Offenders are always going to find away around filters or anything online to be able to get to kids. But I do thing they these filters should be enforced in school, and no where else, because we are at school to do work and learn, not to push our work a side and go MYSPACING, to chat with our friends.

fuck school,i havnt dont n e thing n my computer class,evan if myspace is blocked or not,so im not seeing a point

Try http://www.bypassfilter.net to access this and other blocked sites from school and work.

The rhetoric from advocates was all about MySpace. For example, Texas Republican Ted Poe says, “social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak into homes and solicit kids.”

An incredibly vague law, DOPA will require schools and libraries to block access to a potentially huge range of sites on the internet. The goal is to protect children from adult predators. Sites that must be blocked include those that allow people to post profiles, include personal information and allow “communication among users.”

These statements say that the schools and libraries are trying to keep you off myspace while you are in there facility and so if something happens to a kid because of them being on myspace while there on one of their computers then they get blamed. But as long as you are some where else and they don’t get the blame then they wouldn’t care as long as they didn’t get blamed responsible

Its so annoying having myspace blocked. I go to a boarding school, the only way of keeping in contact with people from home the quick way is internet, sure phone is fine but we (kids), dont have money all the time and phone cards are getting expensive.

hey this class is like soo totally gay my myspace page is blocked

ello ppl dis is ashlrigh n hannah. were in music tryin 2 get on surferduderanch lol!!!1 our skool iz shit dey hav blocked everythin! xx

Some schools are blocking youtube, hi5 and wikipedia, also! While adminstrators are blocking sites kids fight back using online proxy servers to access banned or filtered sites. Eg. http://www.vipsurfer.com and http://www.msproxy.net are just 2 such sites for bypassing firewalls while staying secure and protected.

Also you can use PROXY MYSPACE to access any blocked sites from school or work to fight boredom: http://www.surfinter.net or NEW*** http://www.hidemyway.com !

i need help

imma my space…..freak

FUCk the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi. I am a high school student. My school district has had sites like myspace blocked for quite some time. I personally don’t think there is much of a reason. I understand what they mean about how people meet people online, but if you look at statistics, not many people ever meet people online, and if they do, it’s there own damn fault for being so immature and stupid. The majority of us don’t meet people on myspace though, we meet them on other sites that we can still access on school computers. It is my personal opinion that myspace should not be blocked on school computers. If students have extra time during school, they should be able to do as they please as long as it isn’t corrupting their minds, or distracting working students around them. This law is pretty dumb, and shows us why we all really could live with a different president, but you know what. No adults have the right to complain about our president, they are the ones who elected him, and just because they aren’t happy with what he is doing now, oh well, they are the ones who voted and elected this guy, deal with it. Also, maybe next time you should all make smarter choices about something important like this, or impeach him already!

This does suck…. How do the school filters know to block proxies?

K, i am a concerned parent, i know your kids may be subjected to non sense and obseen picture on myspace, but i met my wife on myspace and there are many good things coming from myspace, so if all of you other parents would pull your head out your ass and stop being such faggots then maybe our kids would live a little bit happier, thank you for your time douche bags, thank you ever so much

I just use a proxy site like ipod.us.to to get around this! “Stalkers/preditors use cellphones to contact their victims so why not ban them?” I mean come on!

unblockit

http://www.homeworkhelpers.info – TRICK TEACHERS, UNBLOCK MYSPACE FREE

http://www.proxygen.info – UNBLOCK MYSPACE, FREE MYSPACE PROXY

poop is good for you to eat

yea i think they shouldnt block stuff on computer i mean me being a musican i need people to listen to my stuff

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angus is cool

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poop is good to eat

i think that this is totally retarded

I HATE SMARTFILLTER THEY CAN GO KISS MY DIK. AND WHOS THE DIK HEAD WHO INVENTED THIS DUMB SHIT ANYWAYS. I LUV (.)(.)

http://www.ehide.info

that seems to work perfectly for me.

i dont understand why myspace in banned in schools what is wrong with chit chat dunriing work isnt not like e dnt do it when we gert home work it doesnt affect the quality of work is long as work is still getting done i dont see why there is a problem. mypace isnt a site where randomers can chat because you have too add them before you talk and the other person has to accept you before the conversations cn begin. now we can just use sites like this to chat to peeps that we dont know there will always be somewhere to chat!!!

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I one hundred percent believe that networking sites should be banned in schools. It was when I was in school and I must say we knew that we couldn’t access those sites so we didn’t even try. Why should it be allowed. School is a place where children are to be educated. Children shouldn’t be worrying about their education and not how many new message they have on my space. Also parents are worried about their children coming into contact with hate on the internet then why would you want them to have a chance of comming into contact with it while at school? Wouldn’t this only increase the likelyhood of bullying in schools? I just don’t get it. Are REPUBLICANS the only smart one around here when it comes to bettering the future of our children and making them safe? Schools are suppose to be a safe place and when we allow our children to get online and chit chat possible badly about other children shcools aren’t safe!

hey, what is up with this? it is the parents and kids fault! if a parent does not care about their kid enough to moniter their myspace then… hey it is the stupid parents fault! why should us responsible kids be punished for the mistakes of idiots. 12, 13, 14 year old girls get these myspaces and load them with crap about bein 18 and wanting ‘it’. i am not one of those girl so why do i have to be punished?

hey i dnt care what u other ppl thik i still believe that myspace should be unblocked at breaks and dinners i dont see the harm in ppl goin on n changin their ages because if they r silly enought to think the guy aint gonna relise when they meet them then that is their own childish fault

If any 1 nows an web site email me lilgeorgia93@aol.com

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i go to a boarding school and they have blokd msn and bebo and all those sites so i havent got much contact with my friends apart from my fone.

THIS is so stupid why we can’t get on it we aer responsible they want us to act adult when the onley freakin websit that we can get on is DISNEY im a junior in HIGH SCHOOL it suck us not being able to check all our emails on tagged,myspace,msn,yahoo,and face book, it is all just really out of hand i understand y not myspace i have it but we shouldn’t be alowed to do it at school because it IS dangours and i understand that im completly ok w/ that it is just redicouls why we canot go to our emails we have calsses were we can chill and be on computers for 1hour it is just rediciouls but i want someone to email me back and tell me if im just over reacting or wat
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barbie.deckard@verizon.net email me

im not going to cuse you guys out that is not the way you guys are going t olet us get through to it we have to show you how responsiable we are i think we cannot handel haveing it

Fuck all this shit

Fuck all this shit. Who gives a damn about the fucking gov.

myspace should not be blocked!!! wankers

WTF this is so stupid, Most kids like myself have free lessons and have fuck all to do. So why the fuck block myspace? seriously it’s not fair you fucking pricks!!

My space should noy be Blocked

Um yea I need a website so I can get on myspace at school……so yea

Any one 3mail m3 if u got a way 2 g3t on at bonitamami2006@yahoo.com

Try http://www.myspaceproxyindex.com, you’ll find lots of free myspace proxy there!

URBANCHAT.COM IS BLOCKED AT MY SCHOOL AND I DONT SEE WHY I COME TO THE LIBRARY EVERYDAY FOR LUNCH AND I USUALLY GET ON THAT WEBSITE BUT TODAY WAS A DIFFERENT DAY I CAME TO THE LIBRARY AND FOUND THAT THIS WEBSITE WAS BLOCKED. I DONT THINK IT SHOULD BE BLOCKED DAMN ITS JUST ANOTHER DAMN WAY FOR TEENS TO CHAT WHATS UP WITH THAT

i think u shouldn’t block myspace at schools because if people don’t have a computer but have a myspace they need to have some way to check it.

look, the only reason that the school should block myspace is because u r not there 2 look @ myspace. but they are bull shitting u to try make it look like they care about our kids by saying it’s to prevent sexual predators. with the right precautions, one can avoid predators on myspace and even assist putting them behind bars. honestly the school i think should not block myspace

its so retarded that were not allowed to have myspace at school!! most of us are only checking to see if any of our FRIENDS, not people that we dont know, have tried to communicate with us!! screw you!!

benton sux and so does the gov. websites shouldnt be blocked (i can understand porn). but the blogs and stuff shouldnt be. WE work our butts of and we should be able to have 15 mins of time to get on the computer and play games if we want. so these school blocking systems can suck it!

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meanwhile one may block MySpace with software such as Website Block

http://www.ashkon.com/webblock.html

This is totally bogus and stupid. Kids should be able to cotact freinds if they are far away.

Also mamy kids the ages of 14 through 18 have freinds that might have an emergency and need to contact another friend. This has happened to my son.

I think Jonathan is right that this is bogus and I think that mamy is spelled many your welcome Jonathan. ROCK ON MINIMIES!

SHUT UP JUSTIN YOU SUCK!!!! :(

screw you hippy!

You know ahat Justin Jason is one of my friends and I dont appretiate you calling him a hippy. So screw you.

First, off you spelled my name wrong stupid. Second i really dont give a flying fuck if hes your friend. You must be gay if you get so butt hurt over me saying screw you to your friend. VOTE YES ON PROB 8!! WEEE. BTW, Austin you can suck my big hairy balls faggg!!

First, off you spelled my name wrong stupid. Second i really dont give a flying fuck if hes your friend. You must be gay if you get so butt hurt over me saying screw you to your friend. VOTE YES ON PROB 8!! WEEE. BTW, Austin you can suck my big hairy balls faggg!!

austin suck my balls you hippy. go smoke a joint. suck my ballssss. i know you wanna

Well I will vote yes on prop 8 because I’m not gay like you Justyn. :( so go suck my cock sack

Justyn and Jonathan are right peoples so u STFU!

ur so right! :)

Dude I think you are gay. Go suck his dik?

i agree with happned to my kids also

yes let porn be seen

Thank you but try to keep it cool

i think it should be unblocked, other kids will learn from others that get hurt from meeting someone in person over myspace. that’s their fault, not everyone else should suffer, or well be punished.

myspace should not be block. thank you and wish you could unblock it.

this web sit is a way i talk to my friends and express my abilitys to use computers and it nno harm to do so so you want to talk just email me at the adress above thank you for letting me talk.

google

Thats wack it we old enough to know what myspace is and to get on it we old enough to be beable to get on at school and in really sure that we are not stupit enough to be cought by an Online Predator and we are smart enough not to talk to any-one we dont no,This is stupit and dumb and yall need somethin better to do then sit on the compter block stuff is it botherin you that much?? so unblock this now!!!!

blocking myspace is retarded.

PUT MYSPACE ABLE TO GO ON IN SCHOOL!!!

Yeah! Let’s be in the groove baby! ^_^ *dances* By the way, enforce is spelled with an E. Glad to see myspace isn’t getting in the way of your education.

at my school all the high schoolers have laptops…when someone blocks a site..someone is always finding a proxy..we will always have a way to get to what we want..we just have to go to the right person for a proxy…nothing will STOP US from going to the sites we want to go on!!

I think its stupid that myspace is blocked at schools just because of sexual predators were old enough to know who is a sexual predator and who isnt so this law is stupid and anyone for it should go straight to hell!!!!

I do want to add that while I support the bill, I do think that the legislation should be rewritten so it does not block sites such as Yahoo and Google. I think they need to better determine what sites will be blocked before passing the law.

These are just my thoughts!

do want to add that while I support the bill, I do think that the legislation should be rewritten so it does not block sites such as Yahoo and Google. I think they need to better determine what sites will be blocked before passing the law.

These are just my thoughts!

seriously i need face book for year book to get pictures it should not be blocked and as for the filters they cut in every time i try to do my senior project u guys r jacekd up!!!