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February 12th, 2008

Written Permission

Cross seeks new Internet safety laws to shield kids:
State legislators in Illinois are trying to pass a law that would require sites like MySpace and Facebook to get written parental permission before kids would be allowed on the site.
This may be the stupidest proposed legislation yet.
Is the state going to verify each and […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment

January 12th, 2008

Indiana doesn’t get it either

Law could ban sex offenders from Myspace:
Just like his cohorts from other states Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter just doesn’t get it. Like his other counterparts he is proposing legislation that is supposed to keep registered sex offenders off of MySpace and other social networking sites.
Carter says convicted sex offenders will be required to […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2007

AG Cooper strikes again

Cooper cracks down on predators:
North Carolina Attorney General is up to his old tricks again. Putting unreal expectations on MySpace and allowing parents to continue to shirk their responsibility.
The rules on how children use social networking sites like MySpace.com could soon be changing.
State lawmakers are working a on a bill that would require parents to […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 2 comments

April 4th, 2007

More ineffective legislation

MySpace and Kentucky Sex Offenders:
Put Kentucky down as another state that is deluded into thinking that sex offenders are going to comply with registering their online identities.
Tuesday afternoon at the capital rotunda, the state met with a MySpace official to put an end to this ongoing problem with the help of a new measure called […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

Same old song and dance Illinois version

Bill limits Web sites at schools, libraries:
An Illinois state senator, Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine), is trying to introduce legislation that would ban sites like MySpace from state schools and libraries. Haven’t we heard this before? First off like I’ve said many times before schools already ban MySpace. We don’t need a law for this. […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

January 27th, 2007

Ga. state senator takes aim at MySpace

State Senator Takes on MySpace:
Georgia state senator Cecil Staton has a bill before the state legislator that would require kids to get parents permission before signing up for sites like MySpace and Facebook. Great idea in theory but how does he think that should be implemented? He has no idea.
Staton wasn’t quite clear on how […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments