Mitt Romney, who continues to believe that our children are swimming in a cesspool of perversion, now proposes that every computer sold in America should be sold with a filter on it to trap pornography that parents could turn on.
How he would make that magic clean-your-mouth-out-with-soap button work is beyond me.
Romney continues to be befuddled by the internet. He also confused MySpace and YouTube:
“YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained. “YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000.”Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.
The web site MySpace is the one to which Romney actually was referring. MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., said this week it had found 29,000 registered sex offenders who had submitted profiles to its site and removed them.
The GOP is turning out to be not only scared of the internet but clueless about it. Log on and come on in, boys. The water’s fine.
He’s a bit out-of-touch. There’s already a law related to this for ISP’s:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=47&sec=230
” (d) Obligations of interactive computer service
A provider of interactive computer service shall, at the time of
entering an agreement with a customer for the provision of
interactive computer service and in a manner deemed appropriate by
the provider, notify such customer that parental control
protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering
services) are commercially available that may assist the customer
in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. Such
notice shall identify, or provide the customer with access to
information identifying, current providers of such protections.”
Jeff-
I take issue with this statement:
Mitt Romney is not the “GOP.”
And some of us are trying our arse off to help turn the entire ship around. Though a minority, we’re hopefully making an impact.
Thanks,
David All
TechRepublican
David,
Well, let’s see a majority sign up for the YouTube debate. I know you’re trying. And let’s see Giuliani open up his MySpace page. And let’s see them not try to ruin the internet.
I thought he was going all environmentalist on us there for a moment with the whole “water” thing. Yes, that’s exactly what America is screaming for in 08; Fuddy Dudduy-ism! Maybe I’ll finally get the impetus to buy the new MacBook I wanted come the second Wednesday in November.
I wonder whether Republicans are going to be with this unnecessary and burdensome regulation of business.
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I thought he was going all environmentalist on us there for a moment with the whole “water” thing.