EFF, where are you?

If you have been an active reader of my blog, I alerted you about this bill back in May.

On Thursday the US House of Representatives passed a law the Deleting Online Predators Act 410-15. As I speculated earlier, and CNET confirms, the wording of this law effectively bans any site where a user can publish and/or communicate with others from being accessed in schools and libraries. Adults can ask permission to use them. The law targets Myspace and chatrooms, but loops in everything including forums, Amazon.com, blogs, and the list goes on.

All of this talk about the digital divide may come true after all.

From a reasonable perspective this law will probably just be struck down as unconstitutional. Being that an election is approaching rapidly this was expected. It is unfortunate that the people who represent us neither read the bills or have any understanding of what they are regulating.