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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