| # | First Name | Location | Age | Comments |
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| 3651 | Anonymous | CA | 06 | I do believe we should try to stop inapropriate sites. yet this is a decietful suggestion from the ruling political powers to restain or possibly they want to give all power of our freedom to one intity. thats NO GOOD!!! |
| 3652 | Karen | MA | 06 | |
| 3653 | Anonymous | NY | 01 | |
| 3654 | Brent | GA | 04 | This law is far, far too broadly defined. Beyond that, it is coming very close to and quite possibly crossing the line of violating free speech rights by restricting the free speech of millions of people.
Also, this law potentially affects individuals like myself who are not minors and use sites that are included in the overly-broad definition (including Internet forums). This creates an even larger free-speech threat, particularly for college students who might be dependent on the college for internet service.
The final problem is the potentially _massive_ impact on a variety of commercial entities, including Google, News Corp. and a variety of others. While the intention of the bill, to protect minors, is both noble and laudable, this bill is not the proper way to achieve those goals. |
| 3655 | Anonymous | INTL | 02 | SAVE MYSPACE!!! |
| 3656 | Carl | MN | 04 | By not allowing social networking sites to be used for educational purposes it will ensure that the only safeguards our children have are parents. Aside from hindering what our schools can do it will also make these sites safer for predators and more dangerous for our children. This bill should be renamed EPA: Enabling Online Predators. |
| 3657 | Jennifer | TX | 05 | |
| 3658 | Amanda | OH | 04 | |
| 3659 | Emilio | NY | 02 | As a former NYPL employee I notice the only reason many young come to to the branch is to "surf" the web. If this bill is passe it will be a major blow to librarys all over the country. |
| 3660 | Anonymous | NC | 01 | |
| 3661 | Nick | OH | 02 | DOWN WITH DOPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111 |
| 3662 | Richard | MD | 04 | |
| 3663 | Stanley | AZ | 05 | Please sign, preserve the Constitution of the United States and our precious Amendments from political Zealots that seek to restrict our freedoms and rights (in the name of the "Greater Good" of course). |
| 3664 | Anonymous | INTL | 07 | I am an active user of a journal site, and I am always delighted to be able to hear the views of and enter into discussion with intelligent young people. They think about issues and present their views candidly and often challenge my 'older generation' thinking.
Preventing teenagers from using social interaction sites will not stop pedophiles. It will however, stop the upcoming generation of voters from connecting with other people and learning about others - getting a picture of the world beyond themselves. Teach them about the dangers of online predators, teach them how to protect themselves - don't stop them using the Net. It's like saying 'the road is dangerous, you might get run over - so you are forbidden to cross the road.' |
| 3665 | Anonymous | INTL | 06 | |
| 3666 | Anonymous | FL | 04 | Blogger is a wonderful tool to communicate with librarians around the country. I would hate to have this wonderful technology restricted becuase parents are not educating their children. Keep them safe by educating, not restricting. They will just find other sources. |
| 3667 | Christine | NJ | 03 | |
| 3668 | Michael | TN | 04 | |
| 3669 | marie | CA | 06 | Pedifiles and preditors can be stopped by having parents take more contol of their children.Why is everything blamed on myspace? It is the user who is doing wrong, not the product. |
| 3670 | Kelvin | AZ | 06 | |
| 3671 | Anonymous | OH | 04 | I feel that perhaps the focus should be on educating children about the kinds of information they should not include. |
| 3672 | Paul | IN | 02 | This bill is rediculous... Instead of banning the use of forums and online meeting place, more should be done to educate teens and kids on how to safely use these sites. Most of the negative incidents occur because of human error on behalf of the student.
Thanks |
| 3673 | Anonymous | AL | 01 | I'ts calleed the freedom of speech! we get this right!!! |
| 3674 | Anonymous | LA | 03 | |
| 3675 | Anonymous | TN | 03 | |
| 3676 | Anonymous | CO | 01 | |
| 3677 | Anonymous | WI | 01 | |
| 3678 | Anonymous | CA | 04 | |
| 3679 | Robert | NY | 01 | |
| 3680 | Samuel | CT | 04 | |
| 3681 | Joey | CT | 02 | |
| 3682 | Anonymous | VA | 02 | |
| 3683 | dustin | IL | 04 | |
| 3684 | Anonymous | TX | 02 | |
| 3685 | Christopher | FL | 04 | Any representative that signs this bill is casting away my consideration of voting for them for their entire political life. |
| 3686 | Anonymous | CA | 04 | |
| 3687 | Anonymous | CA | 04 | |
| 3688 | Jamie | CA | 03 | Limiting your freedom of expression, of speech, or communication only presents an opportunity for your indiviuality, and therefore the choices you make in life to be molded, formed and shaped by others than yourself (ie., the government, the media, etc . . .)creating a generalized, un-informed nation. Who wants to live in an ignorant nation? |
| 3689 | Anonymous | FL | 02 | capitolist pigs are just trying to control our lives and steal our money >:[ |
| 3690 | Anonymous | MD | 03 | MySpace is NOT to blame for children being preyed upon, the parents are to blame. If their children can't be trusted to act responsibly on the internet, then maybe the parents shouldn't allow them to get on the internet at all. It's that simple. MySpace doesn't encourage children to talk to and meet up with people who they don't even know and have never even met before, outside of MySpace. MySpace is not the problem. Also, MySpace isn't the only way for child predators to talk to children on the web. There are TONS of ways for child predators to get into contact with children, through the internet. So, banning MySpace isn't going to solve the child predator problem. You'd really have to ban the WHOLE ENTIRE INTERNET in order to do that. |
| 3691 | alicia | CA | 03 | |
| 3692 | Walter | PA | 07 | |
| 3693 | Sylvia | OR | 08 | I am an author of books for teens, and like an increasing number of authors and librarians, I use interactive online sites to connect with readers. It would be a terrible thing if one of the most promising tools for encouraging young people to read, and to express themselves in writing, were to be banned from schools and libraries because of misuse by criminals. And in any case kids will use such sites somewhere; school is where they should learn to do so safely since many parents aren't knowledgeable enough about online communication to teach them. |
| 3694 | Anonymous | OH | 02 | |
| 3695 | Alana | PA | 07 | |
| 3696 | Sari | ND | 05 | |
| 3697 | Anonymous | CA | 04 | |
| 3698 | Anonymous | AZ | 05 | |
| 3699 | Jimmy | CO | 01 | Blogger and MYspace have a place in school. Without Blogger many of my classes would be non-existent. |
| 3700 | Elspeth | VA | 04 | |