Monday, June 19, 2006

WARNING! INAPROPRIATE CONTENT!

Good to see Jon,Janice, Enron, and Eyeball while we are up here looking for a place to live in NorCal!

As a side note, I was using the business center at the wonderful Embassy Suites (the only way to travel with a kid), and I wanted to log onto the hottest site on the net right now, theactionteam.org. However, the software that the Suites (that's what you call it if you are kool) have installed to prevent children from seeing the bad stuff the internet has to offer, blocked our site!

Ordinarily, I would have thought, "that's cool, we are some bad ass motherfuckers talking about some freaky shit that is just too real for the Man to handle", and be done with it. I get it, we swear, that's fine. But the kicker is, and the best part about this whole deal that just goes to show how much people want to control what kids/adults see, hear and read, and yet have no idea how to go about it effectively, is how I found out about what the questionable content was.

In a huge alert box, it stated that the term fuckers (in bold print) was inapropriate for children, and the website has been blocked.

Hmmm. So if a kid stumbles onto the site, and realizes s/he misURL'd, and then leaves, that kid might never see any fuckers. Or, maybe the kid reads some of the posts which might not include any fuckers at all, and then leaves. Or the kid reads the fuckers, but then understands the context the fuckers exist in, and opens his fucking mind to the reaches of space because the Action Team is all intellectual and shit.

With the software installed on this computer, the kid is guaranteed to see at least one fuckers, because it is in bold print, right infront of him, and never blow his mind because he can't see the context.

Man, I am on some anti-pollen drugs right now, and my thought process and word patterns may be eschewed, but that just doesn't make good sense to me. You?