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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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The Right, the CDA, and Wire-Mother Parenting
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Well, congrats to free speech and the mighty 1st. The Communications
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Decency Act (CDA) is deader than Julius Caesar for now (although these
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almost mythological monsters have ways of sprouting seemingly endless new
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ugly heads), and once again most of the world is safe to continue to
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network, communicate, and in time, integrate. Everything from info on
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self-breast exams to Hunter S. Thompson can be freely distributed, and free
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from reprisal. Again: Hooray.
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I may not sound as enthusiastic about the victory as I am because my intent
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is not to write the victory-dance for this achievement. Instead, it's what
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I read while reading an article about this victory that caught my (ire)
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eye. Dee Jepsen, president of "Enough is Enough" (file under Christian
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Coalition, et al, if you're looking for the philosophy of this org), had
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this to say in the July 7 issue of "Web Week":
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"Right now, the entire burden of protecting our nation's children has been
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placed solely on the shoulders of parents."
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What the HELL is going on here?!? "Boo, hoo! You mean "I" have to watch
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out for my children's well-being? No! Make a law! Make it better! You
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need to make the world safe for right-minded, clean-cut, wonder-bread
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baking suburbanites for me!"
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Are these NOT the groups, in addition to their "everything outside the
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bible is printed at satan's publishing house" attitude, that mass-produce
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guilt up the wazoo about "family togetherness"? Are these NOT the folks
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that make every effort to make sure that every child conceived is brought
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into the world, and that they raised in the family unit?
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Don't get me wrong here, I don't agree with things such as kiddie-porn,
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pedophiles staking children in chat rooms, and the amount of wasted
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bandwidth that all other forms of adult entertainment constitute. I also
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don't agree that kids should be checking out gay-bestiality-snuff .mpegs or
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whatever in "Into to Basic" class in the 5th grade either. Personally,
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given the choice, I'd like to see a world that would make less of cynic of
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me when I think of producing offspring at some point. Since I'm not going
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to go on a 1st Amendment coon-hunt in order to make the world a bit more
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Disney, then I'm stuck with the only line of defense I have in order to
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make a child turn out a notch less twisted that I am in this bitter-sweet
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world:
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Spend time with my kids.
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Tell me if this sounds right to you: I have kids. I get the "All Rimjob
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Channel" from my cable provider. I let my kids watch whatever tv they want
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when I'm not around. Now, does this sound like a bunch of kids that will
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grow up knowing every conceivable angle and position in which oral can be
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applied to an anal orifice? I'm pretty sure if my kids turned out to be
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ass-worshipping rimjobbers working as jiz-jockeys in an all night
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peep-booth in Times Square (and, in a perfect world, proctologists), I
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REALLY couldn't get to far claiming the government failed to meet it's duty
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in hand-holding me through the parental experience.
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I'm not much in the way of a government-basher on the whole, but there are
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certain things I think the government can stay out of. When it comes to
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child-rearing, short of a few brochures by the Ad Council, I don't want the
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government anywhere NEAR the upbringing of my children.
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So, getting back to Ms. Jepsen's statement, what were they expecting? Not
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only do I think the idea of the "burden of protecting our nation's
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children" should be "placed solely on the shoulders of parents", I never
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even CONSIDERED it otherwise until I read this tripe. While I do want
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Uncle Sam to make an effort to keep dealers away from the elementary school
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and making some effort to educate about STDs, it is still my job to educate
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them about drugs and sex. What am I supposed to expect? For the
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government to pre-read magazines and books for content? To make sure every
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show on broadcast tv is fit for even the most prudish of Amish viewers? I
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got two #!*@ words for you: N and O.
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Although the V-Chip raises a few hackles on the neck of
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censorship-concerns, it at least has the ends-to-a-means of what I'm
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talking about. If I want to keep the Playboy or Spice channel away from my
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7 year-old, then I at least welcome the ability to program it out of my tv
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selection. In a world where fiscal demands typically prevent both parents
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from monitoring viewing habits, some degree of "programmable parent" is a
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necessary evil. This extends to the 'net as well. If I want to keep
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Capone Jr. out of the "alt.donkeysex" newsgroup when I'm on the commute
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home, then there is software that will aid me to that end as well.
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Still, there is an even better, much older, and time-proven mechanism to
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prevent this as well: Do stuff WITH your kids. As I said, this isn't as
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possible as it used to be, but when there is time, time should be made.
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Not only will you be able keep gang-banging bar-rape scenes on late-night
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Showtime away from your kids, you can also explain what "questionable"
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material you do happen to view.
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I don't care if you watch nothing but Sesame Street with your kids. When I
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was watching it as a tot, a beloved character named Mr. Hooper (time-warp
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time for the X'ers here) up and dropped dead. No matter HOW MANY chips
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and ratings you install, REAL LIFE things are going to happen that NEED a
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parent around to discuss. Life, death, sex, and violence happens outside
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the 'tube, and you might as well belly-up and add a moral, realistic, and
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involved spin to it while you still can.
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In the same disturbing trend as the CDA, the next form of legislation looks
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as if will be geared towards FORCING the ISPs and online providers to
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provide 'net-screening software such as SurfWatch. This is just another
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form of lazy-parent lawmaking. As the V-Chip should be no surrogate for
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parenting, neither should software. Even more importantly, my ISP should
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NOT be goose-stepped into being Mom&Dad either. Only a
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ill-prepared-for-parenthood moron would rally behind the idea that
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tech-support should be parent-support as well. If my kids want to go
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online, I should do it with them. Not to be a "big brother" for content,
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but to explain what they see. Unless I want my kids to be so sheltered and
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pink-skinned when they go out into the real world as adults, I need to HELP
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expose them to the seedier-side of society - and I better damn well make
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sure I am there with them to make sure they know right-from-wrong in the
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process.
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You can cast a plastic-bubble of censorship around all forms of media in
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your house for all of the good it will do. They will see it at friends^<5E>
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houses, on the playground, or snickering in the dark of a basement next a
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duffel bag of someone's dad's collection of Penthouses for 1974. If you
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shut out this kind of material, and allow kids to discover it from their
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peers, then in turn their peers become more of a parental influence than
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you will EVER be.
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So, to not only make my point, but to take advantage of the failure of the
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CDA, let me say this:
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Fuck you, Ms. Jepsen.
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If your kids should read this, YOU should be there to explain this is a bad
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word - not the Christian Coalition, not my ISP admin, and not Congress.
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You should EXEPECT that at some point in their lives they will come in
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contact with that word, and YOU should explain that it is an obscenity. If
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you're worried about the "burden" being on you to raise your kids, pass
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them off to the orphanage now, 'cause it ain't going to get any easier.
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So, to the entire conservative and/or right, why not spend a few less hours
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drafting up legislation, and a few more of those with your kids.
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Personally, I plan on using every spare MINUTE being more of a Dad that
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you, the CDA, and the entire US Government could ever hope to be.
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- capone
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