Maggie's Farm

"In the UK, criminals and cyber bullies to be banned from the web"

And it's about time! Someone actually dared to disagree with something I said the other day in a political post, and all I could think was, "He's cyberbullying me! There ought to be a law!"

As a small side question, can an entire country actually be certified as 'legally insane'?

It's to note, though, that our own Congress is trying to do the same thing to us when it comes to copyright infringement. Like, some video file-sharing site is designed for people putting up videos of their kids playing in the back yard, some asshat posts a 1-minute clip from some copyrighted Hollywood movie at 3 in the morning and boom! Down goes the site. There are two possible bills being considered, 'Protect IP' and 'SOPA'. There's an article on it here, although, as you can well imagine, there are a zillion similar articles out there on the subject.

I'm going to post a movie review sometime next week and, like usual, will be including a short clip from it. If either of those two acts were in place, Maggie's would be toast within the hour. Unlike the Feds spending months chasing down pirating web sites, this is different. One complaint and they simply head to IP Central and pull the plug.

On the other hand, it could be worse. You could live in New York City. Bloomberg is such a jerk. And the real kicker? He's actually thinking of running for president, hoping to collar the nomination during the August convention. Yeah, Mike, that'll turn out well.