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Category Archives: culture of fear

Protecting the children … from their right to communicate!

If you listen right now, you can hear that the edublogosphere is buzzing in outrage at the U.S. congress’ proposed Deleting Online Predator’s Act (DOPA). I found out about it from Will Richardson (Congress Targets Social Network Sites), but Stephen, Danah and Raj have mentioned it as well. (and on Kairos News, and Bryan Alexander). [...]

Next thing you know, it'll be illegal to open your eyes in a public place

Thomas Hawk, writer of the uber-great FlickrNation blog, puts it all in a nutshell – You’ve Got to Fight, For Your Right… to Take Photos of Your Own Kid at a Public Ice Skating Rink? The sheer irony of a public skating rink disallowing photography in a public place while the push is on by [...]