What a stupid ruling!

If I were demon, I would turn the Internet into a one-way connection; you may request pages, but query arguments will be stripped, post arguments will be denied, telnet connection will not be allowed, nothing except web pages coming back would be allowed. All other English ISPs would be forced to follow suit too (you'd have to do this in conjunction with them, of course).

I was in school not that long ago. It is an exceedingly unpleasent place. I didn't even realize how bad it was until I was out.

can anyone seriously doubt that we run schools like police states? And our answer to the troubles is to make the schools MORE like police states? I guess the flower-children of the 60's learned and taught us nothing. I suspect we're going to start seeing rioting at high schools if this goes on much longer.

W.A.V.E., a profit-making program ramping up in the southern U.S. and soon to go national, will use Web sites, toll-free numbers, T-shirts and cash to encourage students to anonymously turn in classmates they consider depressed, dangerous or potentially violent.

After quotes like this,

A question for all of those educational sites that are so-well represented on EditThisPage.com... Consider the Slashdot article about W.A.V.E.. Perhaps the article is a bit sensationalist, but still, there are some valid concerns there.

(I'd recommend you keep an eye on those results, if all goes as planned it will be very useful to show off some of those in a couple of weeks.)