Re: i don't know if it's been signed yet but pass this on

[Gillian Neff <gneff@astro.ocis.temple.edu>]

you know... this is a very interesting debate. i don't exactly know where 
i stand on it. 

in one sense, i believe the parent _should_ have ultimate and final 
control over the raising of their children. obviously a hassidic (sp?) 
jewish family will have a different theory on decency than say my 
relatively liberal parents (relative, folx, for those of you who know my 
parents...). undersdandably they should be able to decide for themselves 
what they believe their kids should see/hear/read.

on the other hand, what about parents who are negligent in their 
limitations? i don't mean utterly abusive and such, but just oblivious 
and/or unattentive? my mother, for instance, has no idea how to _run_ a 
computer, let alone put up software blocks and tell me what she would and 
would not like me to read etc. she doesn't even know hardly that there 
_are_ "bad things" on the net. is it unreasonable for the gov't to limit 
a bit what can be accessed? 

the problem lies in _what_ they should limit and what they shouldn't... 
when america online tried to make a blanket rule ban on the word breast 
everyone realized how stupid such a wide sweeping rule is. 

apparently, what needs to be done is to find a compromise of some sort. 
this new bill though, i'm sure, isn't it. where is the line to be drawn?

just something to nibble on.

					-jill
-and i try to draw the line, but it ends up running down the middle of me 
most of the time...
		-ani difranco