Submission + - Censor The Internet, Say UK Teachers
Marlow the Irelander writes: "The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window, NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet. From the article:
"Unfortunately, any yob or vandal can now have their 15 minutes of fame, aided and abetted by readily accessible technology and irresponsible internet sites which enable such behaviour to be glorified."
"[The general secretary of the union] said the union supported a zero tolerance approach in schools to pupils who used technology to abuse and undermine teachers, and called for more rigorous legislative control of internet sites which gave them licence."
Could Britain, rather than the US, be the main front of the battle against censorship in 2007?"
"Unfortunately, any yob or vandal can now have their 15 minutes of fame, aided and abetted by readily accessible technology and irresponsible internet sites which enable such behaviour to be glorified."
"[The general secretary of the union] said the union supported a zero tolerance approach in schools to pupils who used technology to abuse and undermine teachers, and called for more rigorous legislative control of internet sites which gave them licence."
Could Britain, rather than the US, be the main front of the battle against censorship in 2007?"
