The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a law intended to protect children from pornography on the Internet, saying the law probably violates free-speech guarantees. (read more)
Porn is speech. It’s made of little movies that glaringly lack a plot, but it’s still speech. Kudos to the Court. It’s interesting to note that the decision was 5/4 (R/R/R/R/D and R/R/R/D) … about as even a split as you can get.
ABC is looking to spin off its fall reality series “Wife Swap.”
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Am I the only one that thinks this is a bad idea? In an era when the Right is pushing for a ‘defense of marriage’ and some of the Left and Middle are pushing for a broadened definition of marriage based on love instead of gender, how does ABC think that a show that mocks marriage would be worth anything? But obviously the sixty million or so slugs that tune in weekly to experience other people’s problems because they’re too lazy to deal with their own seem to find it interesting. Just don’t come running to me when they start televising executions and the like … by watching this drivel now, America opens its living rooms for more serious abuses of decency and taste.
Internet Storm Center reports that another (ANOTHER) exploit for Internet Explorer would allow evil nasties to steal banking passwords before they even get encrypted by the industry-standard SSL system. The solution: Install Firefox. Or Mozilla. Or Opera. Or Netscape. Or anything but Internet Explorer. Please. For the love of God.
Cool Finnish Grammy-winning Band of the Day: The Rasmus
