The current campaign against cyber bullying is worthwhile and I accept that damage is being done to impressionable young (and old) people who are attacked on-line. Something has to be done for sure but, does it have to be yet another of those 'catch all' pieces of legislature that are just too broad in their approach and end up 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'.
Good old Amy Adams and the introduction of the Harmful Digital Communication Act. She's a mother you know and is ....
" really anxious that young people particularly don't understand the viral nature, the permanence, the speed of dissemination and the damage of online communication and I worry deeply about how it will affect people not only now but [in] their future careers and life"
Mmm, OK, but ..... what about the old curmudgeons out there who, due to the stresses and disappointments of everyday life feel the need to vent their spleens, to rain down bile on the cheating, mean, selfish and stupid scrotes out their who make their lives miserable?
"STOP THE HATE" they say with one of those annoying bloody hash tags (#).
I guess curmudgeons will have to come up with their own slogan, without the hash tag and definitely not going anywhere near Facebook and Twitter. No, curmudgeons prefer telegrams and faxes but as these have limited reach in the 21st century will resort to using blogs.
"HATE THE SCROTES" or something similar could be the catch cry.
Anyway, something has to be done or we will lose important blogs and on-line information sites that will close down because the Harmful Digital Communication Act will outlaw them. Why only today I learnt that Richard's Bass Bag wiped out all its old blog-posts ........... well, OK, bad example but I'm sure that there are some important blogs and on-line information sites out there that we don't want to lose.
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