When the current MySpace controversy first sprung up, my reaction was that Senator Clinton would make a (brief) appearance on the story – cashing in on the controversy (as she did with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) just long enough to buff up her conservative cred as she plans her run in 2008.
News today that Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for attorney general of New York who before Christmas withdrew from the race for the Senator’s seat after a most un-Christ-like bout of mud-slinging, has beaten her to the punch. In another bizarre coincidence that will invite no skepticism, “MySpace.com is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who controls the News Corporation, which owns The New York Post, a publication that has often been critical of Ms. Pirro.”
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I disaggree with how the pols should react to Myspace Controversy.
They tell parents to monitor their children’s home computer use, but what happens when they go to a friends house, or even to the public school or library?
How about when they start swapping ipods and instant messaging with their friends?
We need to clamp down on the rampant excesses by MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and others who are abusing free speech rights and
flooding the Internet with their obscene material and forums for sick people to go candy shop.
The biggest powers available to help us in this battle have not yet been tap. An “Adult Entertainment Tax Initiative” (AETI) would deliver a crushing blow to these
immoral companies who make a wreck of our society and children and families so that they can rake in fat profits.
The AETI could tax these “Adult Websites” and other related business and also raise funds to help educate the public to these dangers.
Samples of effective AETI taxes would include -
- a tax on the number of obscene images or videos posted on a website without child blocking
- a tax on search engine websites that link or list forms of “Adult Entertainment”.
- a tax on stores selling dirty magazines
- a tax on theaters featuring movies that are inappropriate for minors (i.e. MPAA Rated -R, NC17, X, etc)
- a tax on websites that don’t require a credit card to block out minors from inappropriate material.
I believe there is a crying need for families and responsible people in public position to call on their federal, state and local lawmakers to take action on this urgent issue.
Otherwise the current trend of problems will only get worse.
B Hall, Carlsbad, CA