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).

Of course, it has nothing to do with people's 'rights' (or lack thereof) to libel, it has everything to do with who's responsible. Demon Internet estimates that there are one million individual articles posted every day on their servers. My experience on the internet says this is a reasonable number. If this is not overturned, then ISPs are going to be forced to essentially shut down the Usenet, the Web, and basically, anything where their users can send 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.)