Don’t let kids see MySpace, Facebook in libraries
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- US politician Mark Steven Kirk wants to stop kids from looking at MySpace and Facebook in libraries —- unless their parents say it’s okay.
He sponsored the proposal to keep sexual predators from contacting minors who are using a library computer, says the Gannett News Service.
But, “the American Library Association says Kirk’s bill is yet another attempt by the federal government to interfere with library users’ privacy and free speech,” says the story, quoting Emily Sheketoff, who heads the association’s Washington office, as saying:
“If people in a community do not feel confident that their privacy will be protected, they cannot use the library as it was intended, for intellectual pursuit.
“It will intimidate them.”
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.Stumble It!
Gannett News Service – Bill would ban kids from Facebook, MySpace in libraries, July 28, 2008
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July 30th, 2008 at 2:57 am
they should ban all social networks even from adults
August 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I think that every last one of these Internet restrictions that even HINTS at the almost non-existent “Internet sexual predators” phenomenon are violations of the First Amendment. Apply this garbage to paper mail, publications, and even interpersonal communication in a public place, and it doesn’t fly. They attempt to make it illegal to communicate with others through certain channels, and what’s the First Amendment protect? Freedom of speech, press, and peaceable assembly, in part. Social networking is covered under all three of these categories of Constitutional protections.