The U.S. House voted Thursday (410 to 15 vote) to ban social networking sites such as MySpace.com from schools and library computers. Michael Fitzpatrick, who introduced the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) was quoted saying “feeding grounds for child predators that use these sites as just another way to do our children harm” The Resolution will now go to the US Senate for a vote before being offered to the President for signature into law.
This law will not only have a huge effect on MySpace and other social networking sites, it will also have a negative impact on other commercial sites such as Amazon.com and Ebay.com, as well as entertainment sites and message board sites such as Blogger.com. This is because schools may be required to ban ALL entertainment related sites for security purposes.
This is currently a very heated issue, in that it was published today, July 31, 2006 and there are already 76 comments on this particular article.
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