Illinois State Senator Matt Murphy has introduced a bill that would ban social networking sites in Illinois public schools and libraries. Apparently inspired by DOPA the Illinois bill is even more comprehensive. No access to social network sites on all computers in all public schools for anyone...DOPA applied only to schools that received Federal funding under the E-Rate program and prohibited access to the internet by students.

Mashable writes that Murphy was "thinking of the children"...it seems to me that this kind of "hate mongering"indicates that someone is not thinking of anything but re-election.

It is kind of ironic that school children in Barack Obama's home state will not be able to experience his social network first hand; I guess no discussions in Illinois' schools about the role that social networks are playing in campaign 08.

A state Senator from Georgia, Cecil Staton,has introduced a bill,Senate Bill 59 that would require parental permission for kids to sign up on a social networking site. Further, the bill would give parents access to their chldren's MySpace and Facebook pages.

Well, I have to say the parental permission thing is not a bad thought from a parent's perspective; the problem with the bill is that it won't solve the problem that it is targetd at: sexual predators.

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