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1. Comment - House Passes Bill to Block Web Sites

   (Jul 31, 2006 - 2:10 PM)

   The Internet offers a wealth of educational resources for students. They are able to read newspapers and periodicals on line, conduct research for term papers, submit work to their teachers, receive homework assignments from school websites, register for SAT tests, find scholarship opportunities, and the list goes on. To block a child from the Internet while at school is to deprive the child of important educational opportunities. Students and parents should sign an acceptable use policy contract. Violation of this contract would prohibit the child from access to the Internet. Schools should also filter and block inappropriate sites. Sites should be required to use alternative image tags (to describe image content), and key words describing their sites so that parents and schools can filter out “inappropriate content”.
   Unfortunately many students divulge way too much personal information on social networking sites such as “My Space”. Only children mature enough to use these sites safely should be allowed to use them. These are decisions to be made by parents, and parents alone and should not be under school or library purview.

2. Comment - House Passes Bill to Block Web Sites

   (Jul 31, 2006 - 1:33 PM)

   If someone wants to post nude pictures on the web, that's fine. I don't think that by not advertising these sites that you are preventing anyone from exercising their right to free speech. It is irresponsible to allow these things not to be filtered by internet security software, and to have them available at sites such as "http://images.google.com/". Search engines that display these items should be subscription sites thus making them less accessible to minors.