From The People Who Brought Kansas City Book Banning: Blog Banning!

I like to pop in every now and then to see what the Thought Nazis over at ClassKC.org are up to (and to see if they've, you know, advocated banning anything I've written), so imagine my glee when I saw they've taken it upon themselves to start pointing out bad blogs written by kids in their school district. That's right. They are now going into teenager's blogs and pointing out the utter badness of it all. And why? Well for safety reasons, naturally:

Q: Why can blogging be so dangerous?

A: Blogrings are electronic neighborhoods. Would you allow your kids to run unrestricted in a neighborhood full of lies, profanity, occultism, pornography, sex shops, and perverts? Of course not. We move into real neighborhoods that we consider the most beautiful, safe, and best environments to raise our families. Yet, for some reason, some parents neither monitor nor question the electronic neighborhoods that their kids spend hours in every night through the Internet.

Imagine your most intimate thoughts as a teen -- your hopes, dreams, details of a date, a crush, a fight with your boyfriend, the loneliness of never having a boyfriend, your frustration over a test or teacher, or the struggles your dad is facing because he got laid off. Imagine the things you might have written in a private diary stuffed under your bed. Now imagine sharing that information with every stranger in your school, neighborhood, registered Johnson County sexual predators, and even the world! Welcome to the world of teen blogging.

Because teens are quick to reveal personal details about themselves and their friends on blog sites (personal details compromise about 90% of the blog postings), teens are also the most vulnerable to sexual predators or other individuals or groups who use type of personal information to manipulate and harm them.

So what do the intellectual giants over at ClassKC.org do? That's right: They list all the blogs they can find run by students in their area.

What is wrong with these people? Why can't they let teenagers have free thought? What are they so scared of? Of course, their mantra about this subject is the same as it is regarding books: "What you let your mind dwell on, you become." Let your mind dwell on this: You are fucking Nazis.

Comments

[James C. Hess]

Let us follow this tactic to a superficially logical conclusion: If you write something down, putting it to paper or a journal or a blog, you tend to think it through. When you think something through you tend to think about it at length. When you think about something at length you tend to draw conclusions and gather more relevant facts and truth. In doing so you begin to question certain things.

Like teachers and educators.

Which, apparently, the mental pygmies, er, intellectual giants at ClassKC.org, don't want, because it might go to reveal them to be what they obviously are:

Fakes. Frauds. Academic snake oil salesmen of the worst kind.

--WHOOPS--

Too late. By their own actions they have exposed themselves.

But let's keep at 'em, shall we? Let's make the kiddos think and write. And learn.

[Kristy]

I'm going to write Mr. Scott and ask him why xanga takes such a beating by organizations like this one. Why xanga when there are thousands of free online places for teens and other age groups to utilize. Why xanga for crying out loud? Why?