US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites
by Marshall Kirkpatrick on July 27, 2006

Image from Flickr user Hey PaulUS House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies. According to the resolution’s top line summary it will “amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.”

Adults will be able to ask for the library’s permission to use such sites. The Resolution will now go to the US Senate for a vote before being offered to the President for signature into law.

The rhetoric from advocates was all about MySpace. For example, Texas Republican Ted Poe says, “social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak into homes and solicit kids.”

An incredibly vague law, DOPA will require schools and libraries to block access to a potentially huge range of sites on the internet. The goal is to protect children from adult predators. Sites that must be blocked include those that allow people to post profiles, include personal information and allow “communication among users.”

410-15 was a shocking vote. I write about it here because it has the potential to impact a huge portion of our readership and the companies we profile on this site. Though the viability of enforcing such a law is open to question, web services offering collaboration in education are looking seriously endangered. Secondary collaborative consequences of commercial web sites used in schools aren’t looking good either. Or perhaps it’s just symbolic of the divide in the US between on one hand those of us who are excited about the incredible potential of web services to enable personal creativity and on-demand global communication and on the other hand those who believe that the internet is just a series of tubes.

I’m not the best person to analyze this though. Here’s who I recommend:

  • Declan McCullagh at ZDNet has posted a very thorough background article on DOPA.
  • Andy Carvin writes Learning Now, a blog about education and technology for PBS, and has set up a page called DOPAWatch to aggregate blog posts on the topic.
  • danah boyd is probably the web’s leading expert in analyzing the politics of MySpace and youth social networking.
  • Will Richardson’s Weblogg-Ed is a great source for all things Learning 2.0
  • Vicki A. Davis is a Christian school teacher in Georgia who uses blogs, wikis, podcasting and more in her classrooms. Vicki has written a number of powerful posts on DOPA and I would expect she’ll have something to say in the morning.

If youth are the most likely adopters of new social software then I think it would be in the interests of all who are interested in social software to watch the US government’s attempts to keep children from it.

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Man, this is a bombshell! I’m just wondering how in the world they intend to try and inforce this one.

I think I’ll create a “social proxy” to keep all the everyone in the groove.

 

Great, Another stupid unworkable law…

I think it’s about time the law makers got thier priorities straight and about time parents took some responsibility for thier kids safety.

 

After all this I kinda really think *Computers in the Classroom* may be a Bad Idea…

Kids these days think Everything is FREE an School is for Downloading Music, Playing Games and Chatting with their friends online or playing with their Myspace account…

Ummm, Good place to look for the blame is the Parents…

“Hey Marge!!, we can just buy Johnny another Video Game and get Him Broadband and never have to deal with him again”…

I’ve played Video Games since the early 80’s when there was no “Video” in the games and I was a young adult at the time but I “NEVER” turned out like what I am seeing these days…

 

I know that this law is pretty un-enforceable but if passed it will still have a huge impact. Many libraries and schools will abide by the law without enforcement and the broad language of the law is obsurd. It includes every blog out there, (including Techcrunch), Newsvine, Digg, even the new Netscape!

Although I don’t live in the US I am an English-language publisher online with a very large under-18 audience. This means that I will have to watch my back adding any interactivity to my sites as they are often accessed from schools.

 

Dugg.

This is a friggin’ joke. It’s time that Internet enthusiasts and advocates got organized and infiltrated government. First we deal with Net Discrimination, then a series of tubes and now banning social networks in the last vestige of public spaces. This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

Most Libraries in the USA have a CHILDREN’s Section and a seperate ADULT Section - the children’s sections are usually monitored by staff and Security Guards and a filtering software is installed…..

Usually during School hours, children & Teens are NOT allowed in the Libraries…and when they are there there is competition to use the computers for HOMEWORK only. The school computers are equally as valuable for doing Homework or project researches.

Depending on the library - certain age groups under 13 are defined as children - some Libraries consider teens under 18 to be off limits to the adult sections

So, it is possible that even if passed, the bill might not have an extreme effect for most kids or teens - unfortunately, except for the very poor.

Some, whose parents were considering getting a PC but are one of the statistically few holdouts - might now get one due to the very low costs for both PCs and Internet Connections - if this law is passed.

unfortunately, this would leave a relatively few whose income is just too low - even with decreasing costs - to get computers and net connections -
who would be totally deprived of the social networking and chat sites - except if they have friends or relatives they can visit.

 

Just one more step on our way to fascism. All hail Dear Leader!

 

What does this mean to companies like tagworld, Kaboodle or even various blog sites like tecchrunch or technorati?

 

It’s an election year, what do you expect besides feel good crap that doesn’t have any substance accept good newsbites.

 

Wow. This is completely ridiculous.

 

What a pile of crap. Anyone supporting this law please tell me what the benefits are - I see none, zero, nada.

Sexual predators ultimately use the phone to contact their victims, so how about banning the use of cell phones (and old fashioned phones now that we’re at it) by teenagers? Unbelievable.

 

Typical. Congress wants to outlaw the only place guaranteed to have trained social workers monitoring kids’ access to MySpace.

 

To those who say this is unenforceable, I’m afraid that’s not true at all. It’s very enforceable. Most schools already have some form of filtering/blocking software installed. This law would have the FCC publish a list of sites that have to be blocked, allowing for a one-click (eg. a separate filter category to block the sites on the FCC’s banned list) “solution” for most schools.

 

They would have to block Wikipedia, Live.com (which is integrating MSN spaces). Also, I could build a Social Networking site based on e-mail alone. Damn, that’s not a bad idea.

 

Back to the stoneage :-/

 

This still has to pass the Senate. So at this point it is not enforceable in my current understanding.

 

I have a hard time imagining that at 400 to 15 in the house it’s going to go down in the Senate.

 

The courts will strike this down. It will never get enforced, per injuctive relief.

If it does get enforced, then most kids will find ways around it.

It will be, however, another way to arbitrarily arrest and fine people. Just think, soon it will be a crime just to talk to children, unless you’re the parent, and have the courts permission.

Maybe they should just raise kids in vats, so they’ll have total control of their every formative experience.

 

It occured to me that, as they allow people to find other people based on common interests and associations (ie. classes they’re taking) and because they have chat, mail, and comment capabilities even the popular Blackboard and other online classroom software (like the open source Moodle) would qualify for banning!

 

Your link to the bill is expired- use
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/......R.5319.EH:
(further comments on my blog)

 

It’s funny how they only attempt to eradicate the problem at the top level instead of the lower level.

Wouldn’t it be more dangerous to have people going to those sites in their own personal space without any supervision? ie. home or friend’s place? At least at schools, it’s public, it’s punishable (I hope).

But hey…it’s all about money, fame and power. Nothing can stop it. :)

 

What the law and law-makers completely ignore (you’d have to ask an e d u c a t o r) are the phenomenal learning experiences that can be coordinated by creative teachers with online social networks. Teachers who are now using blogging as an instructional strategy are raving about their children’s improved writing, the motivation to want to write (when at home sick, during lunch, during recess), and their engaging comversations with students in other parts of the world.

DOPA learning, not fear!

 
 

We hear all this talk about sexual predators on MySpace, but is there any hard data on how many predators actually come in real-world contact with a kid they meet on MySpace that results in a crime?

And does this apply to all schools, including universities? I’ve used Facebook a number of times from school computers to looking up the phone number of a group member who is late to a meeting.

 

Thanks for the mention, marshall of my Cool Cat Teacher blog and yes, I did write about this continuing travesty in my blog today.

We need an Online Safety Act (OSA). Predators are not a button you push that can be deleted! It is not that easy. You delete predators with education!

We outlawed drugs, but the only thing that reduces drug us is drug education programs. We outlaw kidnapping, but the only thing keeping kids from getting into cars with strangers is educating them about “stranger danger.” We can outlaw myspace (and a plethora of useful educational tools), but the only way to reduce the number of online victims is with online safety education.

Without access to online tools, the education goes on outside.

The fact is, kids are not myspacing at school now! Most schools block myspace already! Kids are doing this at home. And now that public school educators cannot even access myspace, the predators can say “Yippee! I’m rid of those pesky teachers!”

We currently have NO reporting mechanism to report predators and our only solution is to block myspace. I feel like we’re in the dark ages that we would rather burn blogs than harness them to improve education!

 

U.S. Constitution: First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Social Networking site are just peaceful assemblies. This is against our right to free speech.

 

@LaptopHeaven — that’s an interesting spin… I can’t really think of any way to dispute that point, so perhaps that is one approach — to look at social networking sites as peaceful assemblies of folks. Ironically MySpace (commercial though it is) has replaced the notion of the civic space and kids are spending more time connecting with each other online because somehow we’ve let our communities go to pot so that it’s not safe for them to meet in person.

The more restrictions that are replaced on the public commons, the more this slide will continue.

 

Wouldn’t it be nice to have people in Washington that understood technology?

I can’t wait for that day to come.

 

Sign the SAVE YOUR SPACE petition opposing HR5319.

Although HR5319 is titled the “Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)”, the bill is very misleading. What most people don’t realize is that this bill is misleading. If you take a closer look at DOPA, you’ll find that this legislation actually limits your rights to access and express yourself on the Internet instead of “deleting online predators”. But before this legislation becomes law, there are several more steps including getting approval by the Senate and, ultimately, being signed by President George W. Bush.

Unfortunately, the public only sees what the media and politicians tell them. They need to hear from the actual users of social networking sites.

The SAVE YOUR SPACE petition is your chance to be heard and to show the public, the media and the U.S. government the importance and amazing power of social networking sites.

Help us get 1,000,000 signatures in 1 month.

Visit http://www.saveyourspace.org for details.

 

I don’t think this is going to help with sexual predators at all. First of all, childern are not going to pay attention to this at all, if they want to go to the social networking sites someone will find a way to do it. Secondly, when it comes to sexual predators the child is gennerally not innocent, the child does not use much common sense most of the time, this is what causes them to meet with sexual predators. If we want to start getting rid of sexual predators we should start punishing childern, for being stupid, and meeting with the sexual predators int the first place.

 

Richard, you’ve got to be kidding. I’m going to presume you are kidding, cause if you were serious that would be so harsh it’s stupid, that opinion there.

 

yea, I was mainly kidding, but I do think that we have to relize that the child involved is also partly at fault.

 

For a lot of poorer children whose only internet access is from the library (not having a home computer or net connection), this will make social integration harder. Too poor to have the net at home? No livejournal for you.

Richard Tator- stupid is not ignorant. Ignorance isn’t solved by punishment but by education. Many sexual predators are related to their victims, so children can be victims despite behaving properly. In cases of online predators many think they are meeting someone their age… even if someone does something stupid, the responsibility for a crime still doesn’t rest with the victim. Your attitude is very strange, please reconsider.

 

There are so many anonymous proxies out there. Kids will figure it out a way to do it. I bet kids spend more time on myspace at home than at school or libraries. Ban broadband to the home next? This is a slippery slope. Plus, the brainier ones go to library.

They are doing this for the show. They do not want to be the ones voting “against protecting children.” At least 15 of them voted no.

 
 

Given the very negative response to DOPA in the comments section, I wonder what is driving the politicians to have such overwhelming support for the law. I understand that no politician wants to vote against protecting children, but they must not realize that they are actually voting against engaging learning opportunities.

 

That may be the case here, but if you check out the comments even at Digg on this topic there are a shocking number of people commenting in defense of DOPA. I was really surprised.

 

I’d urge everyone opposed to this to contact their senators, don’t just complain about it in some comments section to a blog (not saying you are, just encouraging some meaningful follow-through).

 

Ok, now working in a library, the use of myspace here is huge… and mandating this will only get the American Library Association in on this… they are the reason why CIPA has failed several times… so I think that they’ll end up having this fail as well… not to mention that mandating what people can do is never a good thing.

 

I have no problem with schools and libraries banning the use of certain websites (MySpace, etc.), since, after all, those aren’t personal computers, but rather ones meant for educational use. If they were purchased by taxpayers’ money, they should be put to use for something other than posting a personal profile and trying to add/be added by as many friends as possible.

However, I have a problem with the vagueness of the law. Many bills are passed into law that aren’t specific enough, IMO; it’s just like the current controversy over patents that are granted. Things like this need to be more specific.

As it stands, I think this bill/law should be thrown out, and we should let school districts and libraries filter out websites (as they have been doing) on their own basis. They likely will know what is sensible to filter out and what isn’t, and don’t need an overbearing law to force their hand, so to speak.

 

@Marshall: After a quick look through your Digg link it is pretty surprising how many people support this bill.

I know it’s a smaller community, but the folks over at the Newsvine page on this topic are pretty dead set against it, (although some wouldn’t mind a bill that just restricts the use of MySpace ;)

 

I think the solution is to get rid of libraries. In my town we just spent $50M on a library and, for that money, we could have purchased 3 computers and free internet access for every person in the city.

I would be more shocked if the vote hadn’t been so lopsided. Congress doesn’t care about protecting your adstream and how readers find you … and I’d be pissed if they did.

 

Why not just ban Myspace, Friendster, and chatrooms from the internet? If the government thinks it’s a bad thing for kids, why stop at the library and school level?

Since US still controls the internet, they can do it!

 

So will the banned sites that allow “communication among users” include their campaign Web sites?

 

It’s only going to get worse before it gets better.

There’s a whole generation of politicians out there who still don’t really grasp the internet in its many forms. They just don’t “get it”. Would you ask your grandfather about his opinion of various parts of the internet? And then base legislation on it?

They are so easily swayed by the usual persuasiveness of people who either have contrary interests or who have distorted ideas of security.

“We’re doing it for the kids!” Another flag for the ignorant to wave. Sigh.

 

First off
LaptopHeaven (Comment #26) had a very good point. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights gurantees us the freedom to assemble. MySpace is an assembly of teenagers.

Secondly, teenagers already have multiple ways around the current filters. Teenagers can already easily get around current filters and will just as easily if not more easily get around any new ones. Sure, the filters will block major proxy sites but what will stop them from making private undetectable ones?

 

Sexual predation of children existed long before the internet and will exist long after this ‘ban” goes into effect. It’s an election year stunt that does nothing tangible. But hey, what do we expect from these no-nothings in government for the last ten years? Leadership on real issues? ha….

 

The idea of this being a “freedom to assemble” is interesting, but I’m not sure that angle will work. We have a right to bear arms, too, but we can’t legal “bear” them in schools. Students/kids have limited rights because their protection and safety is more important. BUT, that said, I believe DOPA will do a lot more harm than good.

Our district already blocks MySpace and I support that block, but a blanket ban of all sites that have profiles? Well, so much for my technology club’s blog and bbs…

Besides SaveYourSpace.org, which I’m not convinced will have an impact but I “signed” anyway, what can we do?

 

On July 28, Peter wrote, “I have no problem with schools and libraries banning the use of certain websites (MySpace, etc.), since, after all, those aren’t personal computers, but rather ones meant for educational use. If they were purchased by taxpayers’ money, they should be put to use for something other than posting a personal profile and trying to add/be added by as many friends as possible.”

As a librarian, I’d like to make a couple of points in response to your post.

First, we tend to forget that young people have First Amendment rights, too, and that there’s a lenghty body of caselaw affirming a young person’s right to access constitutionally protected free speech. I don’t know about you, but I’m not comfortable violating these rights just for the purpose of making an example out of myspace.com.

Second, young people are faced with a whole host of complicated issues in their day-to-day lives, and, truth be told, many times they simply don’t feel comfortable bringing these things up with their parents. Instead, they prefer to interact with their peers, and this is one of the benefits of social networking sites. Pretending that these difficult issues don’t exist, or wishing that they’d go away doesn’t change the fact that kids will always trust those in their own age group more than they’ll trust their parents or teachers.

Third, while public libraries are funded by taxpayer money, no one group has any more influence over how that money is spent than any other. Libraries serve a very broad constituency, and not every one of them uses library collections–electronic or print-based–for “educational” purposes, whatever that means. Would you say that using the library’s computers to apply for a job, book a flight, or set up a free email account qualify as “educational”? And if we set limits on what constitutes “educational” when it comes to online resources, do we also apply this to our books as well? “Sorry, sir, but since we’ve decided that non-fiction serves no apparent educational purpose, you’ll need to look elsewhere for that copy of ‘The DaVinci Code’.”

Sorry to go on, but I’m afraid that DOPA is another example of a solution looking for a problem that really doesn’t exist. The last thing I want is the federal government telling me or my kids what they can and cannot access on the Internet.

 

I was surprised and disappointed that the vote was 410-15. Many of those who oppose DOPA do so because they believe that children should be educated and not restricted. I agree that they should be educated, but let us face it, not all parents do their job and the parents who are doing their job are left with schools and libraries that are not doing their job.

I can not speak on behalf of the US, but I know that surprisingly some Canadian public libraries and schools do not monitor children’s internet access nor do they have filters in place. We were all teens once. I keep hearing the same comments. “Parents do your job.” Well I ask you this, “How many of you rebelled against your parents?”

No matter how much we take care of our children and educate them, it only takes them making one unhealthy choice to put them at risk. You can educate your child untill you are all blue in the face. The truth is that children don’t often think of the consequences of unhealthy choices. If DOPA will save just one child, don’t you think the bill is worth it?

I do want to add that while I support the bill, I do think that the legislation should be rewritten so it does not block sites such as Yahoo and Google. I think they need to better determine what sites will be blocked before passing the law.

These are just my thoughts!

 

Rose, I understand you desire to block some sites, but you end up with the same conundrum that has vexed the filtering companies for too long. How can you possibly police the list of websites when they are so easy to create? It’s like a game of whack-a-mole, and if you whack MySpace, something (or more likely many more things) will pop up in its place. Filtering is not the solution. If we are really and truly concerned with keeping predators away from the children, perhaps we need to think of new solutions. Start with a blank sheet of paper and start over. Technology can solve many problems. Kidnappers used to use vans to grab kids. We didn’t ban kids from vans. The people (in part aided by government) created the amber alert. The goal of any solution should be to make the medium (in the case of kidnapping it was the van, but in this case it’s the Internet at large) as difficult as possible for the would be predators to use it for evil, not to keep the kids away from something that has so much potential and goodness. Over-reaching legislation is never, ever the answer.

Just my 2 cents.

 

how about the ims? people also meet each others via ims.

 

amazing yes…
and also I found really good comments in this threat ;-)

However, my question is: Why parents do not spent QUALITY of time EDUCATING their OWN children?! TEACH THEM TO BE CRITIC !!!!

Excuse me readers, but kids are not doom!, as a matter of fact, they are a lot smarter than some “adults”. What I had found, specially in the USA are LONELY kids, which makes a difference, and should put you to think.

In this regulation, in case that actually out there are TONS of sexual predators will not eradicate them, isn’t it?! The only thing that practically this law is doing is to reduce the use of potential tools, that schools might use to really teach our kids to use their common sense.

Why not POLITICIANS use their time and “knowledge” in resolve really important matters as for example, how to promote family integration, or in other words, how the state can support initiatives to support parents, that work, to spend more time in educating their kids and still keep with a decent life.

 

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look i think its bootie that we kids in high school cannot get on myspace we are responisble enough to get on it!!!! and who ever knows how tho get around the schools setings please e-mail me at redhotcutie_09@yahoo.com
:) thanks if u e-mail me!! lol J/p :)

 

THIS IS FREAKING LAME! it isn’t myspace’s fault that some kids are dumb enough to meet people they meet online. it is the kid’s fault. and because some kids are stupid, all of us are being punished. LAME! i think this new law sucks and anyone who thinks it’s a good idea should do a little research before supporting something so dumb.

 

Somehow people are still getting on myspace at my school even though it’s blocked..If anyone know how to get on please e-mail me at meltedhearts90@yahoo.com

 

Blocking this stuff at a school library is fine, but not fine in a dorm! Especially when this is a school that offers family housing (unnamed graduate and medical school blocks youtube, myspace).

 

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stupid you block it then they will just find more and more ways around it and if they are dumb enought to meet the people i say let them theyll learn or they wont.

 

IT IS THE KIDS THAT ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO TALK TO AN ABSOLUTE STRANGE AND WONT TO TALK AND MEET THEM!!! I HAVE A MYSPACE.. AND I KNOW EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON MY FRIENDS LIST… U CHOOSE WHO UR FRIENDS ARE. IF U DONT KNOW THE PERSON THAT WANTS TO BE UR FRIEND THEN DENY THEM ACCESS TO UR PAGE AND FRIENDLIST. DONT BE MAD AT MYSPACE BE MAD AT THE CHILD BECAUSE THEY ARE THE UNEDUCATED ONES WHO ARE WILLING TO TALK TO ANYONE!! THEY ARE ALSO MOSTLY WHITE KIDS!!! HOW MANY BLACK DO U SEE TALKING TO ONLINE PREDATORS??? EDUCATE YOUR DUMB WHITE KIDS CAUSE THEY ARE THE ONE TALKING TO THESE NASTY MEN!!

 

You people who are saying “Blocking it is stupid.” well, you’re right and wrong. Blocking it won’t help, but it won’t solve the problem.

So, the people chose a sensible way to ignore myspace and blocked it.
Leaving it open would mean more children browsing myspace instead of doing something important.

This is all I hear through 1/2 of my school time is myspace. Everyone things it’s one huge deal but it isn’t.
Just because YOU have people on your list you know ~All or 1.~ Doesn’t mean others do aswell. Which makes it THEIR fault it’s blocked.

 

i think that is so retarded.. if we have free time at school i believe that we should be able to get on Myspace at school also! people under 18 can have myspace and be safe.. set your profile to private for only your friends and only add the people you know!!!!

 

myspace should be allowed and im prepared to pettion
u people suck if you wont allow myspace
most people are old enough to no not to meet people
its not a distraction i say alow my space.com

 

i agree with kristen

 

Okay, I agree that MySpace should NOT be allowed at school. Why should schools allow you to use their resources and connection to visit a site like MySpace. There is frankly nothing educational or remotely intelligent about MySpace or it’s users.

Now just because a school doesn’t have to let you use MySpace does NOT mean there aren’t ways around their filters.

http://www.proxymy.com can by pass my Community college’s internet rules & filters so in my Spare time on campus I can access MySpace.

 

Yeah I also use browse at college to go to myspace while at work. http://www.browseatcollege.com. Also works for youtube etc.

 

well i need alil help getn on myspace…..we have this program that blocks vertually every thing….and if you all could mail me w/ a program that could bypass it then thnx….

 

This is ludicrous!

All this is is an interest group (always known for reliable information, I know) composed of dictatorial parents trying to protect their kids from the world. Parents, chat sites for kids exist because the kids can’t turn anywhere else! Kids commit suicide, kids turn to drugs, kids turn to crime. And now your are taking away this alternative?

They are doing this to be social. To keep still at least SOME social health. And you want to remove it?

I have read these comments. I also agree that it needs to be able to be monitored. But banning is not the way to go.

I am a 22 year old republican. I am this way because of my beliefs, and my hard life. Not a life of “oh, I don’t have a lot of money”, but rather “I have needed new shoes for two years now, and I have to live off of canned vegitables, and sometimes not even that for two months”. I never had any social health until I found out “Their are others who have gone through it” and learned what having fun meant. And you are not trying to remove “Potential predators”. You are trying to remove some teenagers only friends. friends from clear over the world. Do you not think of those who have no one, and would rather die then keep living?

You have no idea who you are f***ing with. Grow up. Your children aren’t in bubbles. they are ALWAYS in danger.

Oh, and as my last rant, a family member is more likely to molest your child then somone looking on-line.

 

what they need to focus on is that this country is about freedom of speech,although not much freedom of speech or anything else as a matter of fact,i may still be a minor but this does get to me that our higher officials will limit the use of internet access by not even looking at what thy are blocking,now we never think just catogorize things by what their “thought” nature may or may not be,but to this point there are a growing number of site unblockers that have helped students get to myspace,this is a fault on their behalf for most of the unblockers let intruders into the main system so that our school files, and our files at that can be veiwed,changed or taken at will,but this arguement goes back to the thought of should we even have the internet at all?

 

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Best regards,

 

I don’t know what you all talk about when you are on My Space. But I have tracked what my teenager talks about and it is sex, drinking, drugs, & parties. Just about every My Space site she goes on has pictures of provocative women in all states of underdress, pot leaves swirling around, picutes of cocaine, foul language, and very graphic talk of sex. They should NOT be one these web sites in School.

 

When you are blocked at school I would suggest using this site: http://www.lameproxy.com
It seems to be the best proxy site out there. And should get you to myspace, etc… Fuck this nazi shit of blocking sites…

 

ustedes dan lastima son unos cochones de mierda ojala q el q lea esta mierda se muera ,,,malidtos cabrones ,,,,u have no life trying to block myspace from schools but to tell u the truth we will always have infinity proxies bitches ,,,doesnt matter how many are blocked more will keep coming up I am sure of it I am doing some new proxy which will last a while before it gets blocked so c ya mother fuckas ,,,,,,and I am prud of my space q viva TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL ,,,,,,chao

 

I am on at school right now and I am subject to predators as soon as I click on “Firefox” so I dont think blocking it does much…as for being off task well I am right now so what’s it matter what site I’m off task on? hahah Ironic how I was searching for a proxy when I came across this

 
 

I really don’t think they should pass this law… I think, that one, it should be a schools choice… and it really doesn’t matter what they block, because there are websites that can get around the block. I’m go to school and I know many students who get around the block easily. And, besides, how is the government going to enforce this one?