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Ironically, in the real world outside the beltway, TIME Magazine just named ‘You,’ the end user, its Person of the Year for 2006, proclaiming on the mylar mirrored cover, "Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to Your World." It would appear that the rejoinder is being written by Congress and it is, “Not in this school; not in this library." So while we exhort administrators and flog teachers to bring schooling into the 21st Century of technology use, our government officials are creating fear-based regulations that continue to make it near impossible to do anything meaningful with technology other than drill students on self-contained local networks of canned curricular material. Maybe I should have entitled this blog entry, Congress Seeks Restrictions on TIME Mag. Person of the Year, because that is the net effect (pun intended). -
1voteThe problem I see with this bill, as with many bills proposed by either party, is that on the surface it appears to address a certain obvious problem. In this case, the general theme is that we are trying to protect our children from digital predators, unscrupulous marketing agencies, oh yes, and themselves. It sends the message, what sort of person would NOT want to protect our children? And places those who oppose the bill’s other tenets in a very uncomfortable position. The question is, what is the unspoken intent and resultant fall-out of this bill should it become law?
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2voteIn both cases, these bills, which are based on a fundamentally wrong-headed understanding of the issues they are designed to address, attracted or are likely to attract significant levels of bipartisan support. Indeed, in a highly partisan political climate, these kind of bills may be the only pieces of legislation which pass with little or no debate and with overwhelming support.
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1voteS. 49 would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prevent the carriage of child pornography by video service providers, to protect children from online predators, and to restrict the sale or purchase of children's personal information in interstate commerce.
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1voteTitle II, or what Carvin is calling DOPA Jr., is a misguided lawmaker's attempt to use legislation to fix some of the messy issues that have arisen from totally wired teenagers' widespread use of the Net.
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