Tue, 01 Aug 2006

US social networking ban could unfairly block some sites

Well, I'm not the only one who thinks this law is a bad idea, and apparently it's worse than I thought. According to some of the critics cited here, I could go to jail just for having comments enabled if I don't check the age of the commenter!

One way to grasp the concept of mathematical infinity is to think about human stupidity - especially in the political realm.

The US House of Representatives has voted by an overwhelming majority to ban social networking sites in schools and libraries. Critics have warned that the ban could apply to a wide variety of sites, some of them of vital educational value.

(link) [The Register]

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On 8/2/2006 13:04:34
Walter Jeffries wrote

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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