Save Your Space is a petition to block legislation in the Us that would block social networking sites in US schools and libraries. The idea is to stop sexual preditors. Though they aren’t really stopping sexual preditors from accessing the sites if they are blocking it in schools. They are just stopping the kids. Furthermore, it’s censorship. Some people’s only access to the internet may be a public library even if not, they might want to access the internet while there even if they have it at home and find it censored. China anyone?
Not only will this affect sites like MySpace and Facebook but it will affect YouTube (which I am currently living on) and also blogging platforms like Blogger, Xanga and presumly WordPress.com. So kids can’t blog now! Why don’t we just ban under 18’s from using the internet? It’s not a good situation and so SaveYourSpace.org has launched a petition aiming to get a million signatures. The deadline is in like a week so they aren’t going to make it. But they can try. I signed it. You should too. I’m even going to include one of their graphic dealies.
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August 31st, 2006 at 12:04 pm
The bottom line though is that it doesn’t affect us here in the UK. I know that sounds rather narrow-minded and in a way, selfish, but its true. This isn’t our fight its the fight for public library users and similar in America.
If the UK government tried to implement something similar I’d organise a protest to downing street, not just “another online petition” which isn’t worth anything in the end anyway.
I think if the American population really cares enough they will organise a march in Washington. Even if they don’t, the likelyhood is it will be yet another law that gets passed and never enforced, after all, how many blocks have you found online that are easier to bypass than reciting the alphabet? If a kid can post on myspace, I’m pretty sure they can follow instructions for using a proxy access site.