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05-15-2006, 01:44 AM
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195270,00.html
This is going to be so much fun.
What's equally fun is this disclaimer below: FOXNews.com is owned and operated by News Corporation, which also owns and operates MySpace.com. |
05-15-2006, 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Rookierookie What's equally fun is this disclaimer below:
FOXNews.com is owned and operated by News Corporation, which also owns and operates MySpace.com. | We've got worse than that over here. We have the statewide newspaper, The Courier Mail, also owning a job finding service. So everynow and then, a 'story' appears about how some person found their dream job using that service... journalism and plugging, a match made in heaven. |
05-15-2006, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Rookierookie | By its very nature, GameBanshee's forums would be such a place.  These kinds of predators have been finding ways to get to children for centuries without needing these online social networks. To think that cutting off teens' access to such sites is going to protect them is ludicrous. And teens have always found ways to get into places they're not supposed to be anyway, so it's not like it's going to stop them. Smells like a cheap attempt at telling the public that the government is actually doing something good.
FOXNews owns MySpace? Oh dear god, one more reason to hate MySpace. Quote: |
Originally Posted by dj_venom We've got worse than that over here. We have the statewide newspaper, The Courier Mail, also owning a job finding service. So everynow and then, a 'story' appears about how some person found their dream job using that service... journalism and plugging, a match made in heaven. | You can't blame them for plugging their own services. All companies do that whenever possible.
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05-15-2006, 08:48 AM
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| | | Meh, this is one of those things politicians do to divert attention from the fact that in reality they aren't actually doing anything to prevent things like pedophelia. Am not sure what the English expression is, but here it would be something like putting mud in your eyes to make you unable to see.
Not to mention that FOXnews is blackballed for me.
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05-15-2006, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Ashen Am not sure what the English expression is, but here it would be something like putting mud in your eyes to make you unable to see. | I think the English expression would be "pulling the wool over your eyes."
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05-15-2006, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Chimaera182 By its very nature, GameBanshee's forums would be such a place. | Forum sites don't really fall under 'real-time'...they may be close, but it isn't the same thing... |
05-15-2006, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Ravager Forum sites don't really fall under 'real-time'...they may be close, but it isn't the same thing... | Quote: |
"allows users to create Web pages or profiles that provide information about themselves and are available to other users; and offers a mechanism for communication with other users, such as a forum, chat room, e-mail, or instant messenger."
| Tut, tut. |
05-15-2006, 10:52 AM
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| | Meh. Fine. It won't affect me in any case...and my empathy for others is low at the moment... 
Besides, my point was that GB is a forum, not a chat-room...not the application of this law. |
05-15-2006, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Ravager Meh. Fine. It won't affect me in any case...and my empathy for others is low at the moment... | That means that those pesky teens whose presence on this board now hinders us in our expression and linking would be gone? Where can I vote for this law? Every cloud has a silver lining. |
05-15-2006, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Lestat That means that those pesky teens whose presence on this board now hinders us in our expression and linking would be gone? Where can I vote for this law? | I'm insulted!  |
05-15-2006, 10:59 AM
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| | @Lestat, Vote? For a law? 
Craziness.  |
05-15-2006, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Rookierookie I'm insulted! | Well, it's not personal. But since Gamebanshee is open for all ages, we are not allowed to use a certain number of words, link to certain sites (and not just porn sites but any sites that contain strong language or even limited nudity), etc.
If teens would not be allowed to use forums the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore.
And I was joking. |
05-15-2006, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Lestat ..... the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore.
| And? You sweet, trusting thing, you |
05-16-2006, 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Lestat If teens would not be allowed to use forums the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore. |  Byebye Lestat, play nice with the big boys. |
05-16-2006, 04:32 AM
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| | I just watched Carrie for the first time on Sunday. (Odd how they played that movie on TV on Mother's Day eh?  ) Anyhow, it seems appropriate here. American society essentially has been for a long, long time to just shut their children away from anything that is dangerous. Don't speak of it, bring it around, and make it illegal.
Which leads to school wide demonstrations on why it is bad after kids seek to explore those things which were banned from them to even hear about. Which leads to child resentment of authority and doing so just because some teacher was spouting stuff in a manner that didn't appeal to the kids. Which leads to bumper stickers and t-shirts, and rulers, and D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp )
Oh yeah, this'll be great! I can picture it now, a 15 year old smoking a blunt, sipping off a 40 and hacking through the blocks set on his favorite chat programs at home all while wearing the t-shirt his school provided to advocate drug awareness, and the spiffy baseball cap that promotes avoiding online predatores. *nods* Go Republicans!
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