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In what seems like a move to be seriously outmatched, former wannabe candidate for Senate, current Republican party hopeful to run for NY State Attorney General Jeannine Pirro is setting her sights on sexual predators that lurk on MySpace. And she's issued a letter to MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch saying that a forum will be convened! We are sure Rupert took the letter and ate it and promptly called his NY Post editors to make sure a damning story about Pirro would be ready for tomorrow's edition! The NY Times points out that the Murdoch-owned NY Post has humiliated Pirro is many, many ways, from covering her laughably mismanaged attempt to be the Republican Senate candidate (though many papers joined in that fun) to her husband's jail time... Oh, and there's the whole "Pirro's husband has a lovechild" thing and how her husband maybe sabotaged her Senate run dreams. However, with fears about MySpace and the Internets overall growing (hey, parents, that's what you get for letting the kids put computers in their rooms), Pirro's forum may have legs - she'll just need to get the Daily News to cover it.
Pirro Takes on Rupert Murdoch
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does she wear a silly putty mask? She is more scary than Joan Rivers, Rosanna Scotto & John Kerry combined.
More legislative crap to protect parents from themselves and all the more reasons to NOT to talk to our kids.
Always keep an open conversation with kids about the internet, and always make the point that what they put out there stays there floating on the wires forever and nothing is ever private.
Nice points, Evamn. If you're in an apartment, try not having the computer in your kid's room. One computer, the whole family uses it, everyone sees what you're doing. The arguments over who needs to use it when are worth it.
Keeps you away from the porn, as well... or so I've heard...
Fuck this woman and her daughter.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/viscome/a03rukaj.html
When the internet free speech clampdown comes it will be by people claiming they are doing it "for the children." The idea of Pirro trying to convene a panel of internet experts to discuss how to fix the internet would be laughable if it weren't so offensive. I imagine the bow-tied PBS crowd convening and lecturing in mr. rogers-like tones about proper internet comportment.
Not that Pirro is going to get anywhere with such a forum, but here's a fun idea that would help ease parents' concerns: Combine the MySpace listings with all the country's sex offender databases. What a helpful mashup that would be.
The best thing parents can do for their kids is not necessarily to lock up the computer, or spy on their phone calls, or use GPS locators. It's to have the whole family sit down to dinner every night, even if it Chinese takeout or pizza or whatever. No TV or shoveling grub like on the Simpsons. Want to borrow the car? Want spending cash? All you need to do is sit down and break bread.
And if every night isn't possible, do it as often as you can. Face time with your family (even if the family is just one parent, or one parent and grandma, or two moms, or whatever) will help turn this country around.
Pugsley: It's not the "the bow-tied PBS crowd" who supports Pirro, nor are they the ones who try to monitor & limit the Internet: it's been the republicans, every time. Don't you keep up with the real world?
Darrin: limits on free speech about 'obscenity' come from the right and speech codes come from the left. Common goals. Wake up.
Pugsley: I've been quite awake, thank you, since the Civil Rights movement and then working against the war in Viet Nam. There were always plenty of "the bow-tied PBS crowd" alongside me, but I don't remember ever seeing a "J. Press clad Conservative" marching, raising funds, sitting-in and, yes, even getting our heads cracked with nightsticks. I know who the enemies of my country and my freedoms are. Reread the article: Pirro is talking about limits on free speech and defining obscenity. She never mentioned, and is not likely to speak about "speech codes", as you put it. Try sticking to the subject at hand.
Darrin: You should call Jeannine and see if she can get you on the internet police commission where you can give me further lectures on internet comportment.