--- In [email protected], Zack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I suspect they're pushing the "suffer the children" line
> because that's the method of attack being pushed by
> the MPAA/RIAA lobbyists in their effort to cripple
> the Internet. There's a bill sponsored by John
> "selling my soul" McCain that pretends to be about
> protecting children but may be intended to shut down
> the Internet.
>
> The other tactic lobbyists are trying to push is requiring
> every document of the Net to be authorized for distribution
> by its copyright holder, which is of course impossible
> to thoroughly enforce, but the penalties are huge, so it
> could cause a panic similar to how terrorism does --
> not that MPAA/RIAA are terrorist organizations, of course...
>
> Trying to shut people up about 9/11conspiracies
> using the "suffer the children" tactic is new to me;
> it kind of suggests there's some truth to the theories.
>
The 20/20 episode in that section was exampling the repeated broadcast
coverage of the Challenger disaster and 9/11 video, not alternate and
conspiracy video. The argument was that repeated viewing of the
Challenger disaster had indicated traumatization of children who
watched it repeatedly. News broadcasters more judiciously cut back at
some point repeated 9/11 footage that would have similarly traumatized
the youth. But, now we have more extreme videos repeating on the net.
I wasn't convinced by the proof and argument. The value to a rational
individual is a depth of information. Having a open, variety of
information on the net is more valuable than filtering through
judicious editors because the individual than becomes the editor.
They can choose what is accurate and innacurate rather than being
patronized to. Children when given a variety of information are often
more capable to decide value and accuracy than some adults will give
them credit for (particularly since some adults want to "protect"
children for their own purposes.) With that, it is the parents
responsibility to provide their meaning and proper limits they see to
video on the net.
;),
Enric
>
> Enric wrote:
> >
> > While channel surfing tonight I landed on the 20/20 show about video
> > on the internet. They mainly covered YouTube. Topics ranged from
> > privacy concerns, to war video shot by soldiers in Iraq from cell
> > phones, to political news as Senator George Allen calling a political
> > vidoer "Macaca", and so on. An interesting program, though I found
> > the section on how children could be irreperably damaged by video
> > images like the Shuttle blowing up and videos of 9/11 ("suffer the
> > little children") patronizing.
> >
> > Mourning the Death of Privacy
> > http://abcnews. go.com/2020/ story?id= 2752636&page= 1
> > <http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2752636&page=1>
> >
> > Viral Video: The New Weapon in War and Politics
> > http://abcnews. go.com/2020/ story?id= 2746937&page= 1
> > <http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2746937&page=1>
> >
> > Video: The End of Privacy?
> > http://abcnews. go.com/Video/ playerIndex? id=2757107
> > <http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2757107>
> >
> > Special Section Outrageous Video!
> > http://abcnews. go.com/2020/ CaughtOnTape/
> > <http://abcnews.go.com/2020/CaughtOnTape/>
> >
> > -- Enric
> >
> >
>
