I do wish I had a legitimate reason for not blogging these past few weeks, but the truth is I've just been ghastly lazy. I just found this story though, which is an important one for my fellow bloggers to keep up with, and just sticks ever so annoyingly in my craw:
John McCain is a buzzkill.
McCain, always known as "the cool Republican" became significantly less awesome when he proposed a new bill in the Senate stating that blogs are legally and financially responsible for whatever bit of offensive twaddle lands on their site or in their comments box. They're also required to report any users who are registered sex offenders. How a blogger is supposed to know if a commenter is a sex offender I don't know- perhaps our blogger sense tingles when we sense dangerous politicians... ahem... pedophiles hanging around our sites.
This, of course, has nothing to do with film, the chosen topic of my little internet oasis, but it's an important issue that all who work within the web need to be aware of. I'll keep you posted as other interesting legislative tidbits tread before my hawk-like eyes.
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Yeah, McCain is a buzzkill. I want to like the guy, but then he comes down on movies or blogs or whatnot. Isn't he supposed to be for the party that doesn't believe in big government?
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