…Opens Online Home for Wayward MySpace Profiles
San Francisco – You might have noticed that EFF has removed its Student
Bloggers’ Legal FAQ. This was in response to a cease-and-desist notice
we received for "encouraging kids to talk back to their parents and
teachers." This incident has opened our eyes to a new plague on the
Internet — the lost and wandering MySpace profiles of thousands of
young people across our nation.
"These profiles are an unfiltered view of young people’s thoughts and
dreams, and that’s just scary," said Bea Kweiter, a volunteer at the
online home. "If this freewheeling expression is allowed to continue,
there’s no way the people associated with it will ever get a job in the
real world. Well, unless some boss somewhere has a MySpace profile of
her own. But that would never happen."
The home offers a safe place for profiles to learn how to self-censor.
There is also a detox center for exclamation-point overload.
For this release:
http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556
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