Please, let me know how folks keep allowing this sort of behavior to happen? Why isn’t there more outrage in Washington and across the country over the behavior of the TSA? Why are they allowed to continue acting like this?
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Under the guise of defeating bullying, the US Department of Education has stated that it wants school principals to censor student speech, particularly in the cafeteria and at online sites, such as Facebook. School principals are being threatened by the DOE with lawsuits if they do not adhere to what special interest groups deem to be harassment of students. Facebook is delighted to help while the National School Board Association is the only vocal opponent of such a measure.
Read the rest of my article at The Daily Censored.
If you’re a gamer in Vietnam, you’re no longer allowed to play games online between 10pm and 8am. Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication asked ISPs to block access for online gaming during this time in an effort to curb side effects from online gaming.
“Provincial departments of information and communication will inspect on-line games activities nationwide and deal with organisations that violate regulations by cancelling their services,” said the ministry’s Deputy Minister Le Nam Thang.
Some on-line game service providers like VTC Intercom and Asiasoft said that the (internet access block) measure reduced entertainment access to adults who have paid a lot for internet access.
They also said it created difficulties for the maintenance of on-line games.
Officials at the Department of Education also complain that students’ education is affected by spending too much time online.
The department’s random checks on 370,390 students from over 1,120 schools showed that more than 82 per cent go to internet gaming shops from one to six times per week to play online games. Of these, nearly 14 per cent can not help entering internet gaming shops eight times per week and 3.4 per cent admit to going more than ten times per week.
Most players spend two or three hours in the shops each time. Some 22,110 students, or 5.9 per cent of the total, spend between four and seven hours each time and 1,745 players, counting for 0.5 per cent, admit they can play non-stop for eight to ten hours on each occasion, the survey said.
Young players prefer playing online games during school time, especially during the noon break time. About 7.9 per cent of players usually play after 10pm.
“Online games and their harmful effects are considered social evil at schools,” Prof Van Nhu Cuong, headmaster of Luong The Vinh Private High School said.
“It’s hard to ban students from playing while internet gaming shops are booming. It’s high time we banned all games with violent or sexual content,” Cuong said.
As in America, instead of parents doing the job of parenting, it’s just easier to censor everything instead. If parents were actually paying attention to their children, a ban from 10pm would not be necessary as the students would be home studying or in bed.
According to the city schools’ estimates, 566 of the 3,874 gaming shops located within 200 metres of schools were still operating despite the recent ban.
Duong Van Ba, deputy director of the ministry’s Student Affairs Department, said the control of online games was not easy, especially in big cities as there were no regulations stipulating which kinds of games were allowed to be published.
While it might be a good idea to regulate the amount of time that children spend on the internet, this blanket rule affects everyone. If you work twelve hours and have the next day off, too bad. You can no longer play your games online because the ban covers a huge swath of the population without taking into account why people are playing.
What if you work the night shift and have the night off? You can’t play games either because the Vietnamese government is convinced that people who play during these hours are addicts and they must be stopped. What if you’re retired and your hobby is online gaming?
Make all the justifications you want, this isn’t about concern over people being addicted to online gaming, students spending time gaming instead of studying or any other excuse the government comes up with, it’s about control. The problem is that people can only be controlled for so long and the internet can’t be controlled. If the Vietnamese government stopped to think for a moment, they would realize that a citizenry who would rather spend all their time online playing games rather than being outside is one that is more likely to be compliant to what the government chooses to do. If you’d rather be gaming, you don’t really care what the government does.
Proxies and VPNs will, as usual, provide the means around any such government blocks. The rest of the population will simply play their games first, then, at 10pm, do their homework.
Desensitize them while they’re young. This way, when they grow up, they’ll let the government do whatever it wants to them. Submit to and don’t ever question those in authority.
It’s a topic a lot of people don’t want to talk about. They are happy to put someone on a sex offender list and forget about the person. As long as the sex offender is not near their child, anything that’s done to them is okay.
“Not only are we going to hold you accountable, but we’re going to watch you,” says Wilson.
This is absolutely about punishing them again. It’s just tossed under the “protecting the children” guise so that people will feel better about unjustly continuing punishment against sex offenders.
The registry and notification system is for a sex offender life, even if the crime was committed as a juvenile.
That’s right, sleep with your girlfriend when you are both under age and you’re labeled for life in South Carolina. The sex offenders don’t have a chance to ever get off the list. It does little to actually help children or keep them safe.
One of the proposed changes is to remove a person if they haven’t re-offended in 15 years. This is a first step in changing the stigma of sex offenders as the lists do not provide details of what happened and the circumstances involved. If murderers, rapists, burglars, and thieves get a second chance, why no sex offenders?
