On My Mind 31 Jul 2006 07:09 am
Seems that Vermont Senator Pat Leahy has agreed to slow DOPA down so to speak and that the bill is now going to the Senate Commerce Committee. Here is a list of members of that group that you might want to contact.
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How can we get the word out there? Why is the media not focusing on this?
I emailed both of our senators-both parties. I really liked Doug Noon’s letter so I used parts of that.
http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/07/30/dear-senator/
I planned to get this info out to my teachers, any other thoughts?
Thanks for the names of the senators on the committee. I have emailed all of them, but I also wonder why the media doesn’t make this more of an issue. I really worry that most of the public doesn’t realize that this legislation would “throw out the baby with the bath water.” It is th job of the media to educate the public and not let this legislation get passed!
[...] DOPA Update [...]
[...] In the span of a couple of weeks the educational landscape we’ve all come to know and care about has taken an awful beating. It seems that DOPA is taking away our open ed-web and blackweb is taking away our walled gardens. For DOPA discussions check out will richardson and for blackweb Harold Jarche and the post on the moodle forums (sign in required… but if you’re not signed up, sign up now, the more the merrier) The important thing to draw from that discussion is that Blackweb has already filed for patent infringement (desire2learn). So here’s the thing. Individually we’re just a bunch of bloggers/educators/interested folks looking at a bunch of rapid fire legislation and going… wait. you can’t do this. What we really need is some kind of united response… we need to react in a way that is focused. We need to gather the experience and intelligence of the community and decide what needs to be done. [...]
[...] However, I was rather surprised and disappointed that my congressman, Bernie Sanders, voted against it. Vermont’s representatives usually listen to our librarians on issues of intellectual freedom and privacy and tend to lean strongly to the left. Luckily it looks like good old Patrick Leahy is working to slow things down in the Senate. Nevertheless, contact your Senators and urge them to vote against DOPA. Seriously, please do. Given the way the bill defines social networking software, this legislation has the potential to block much more than MySpace and Facebook and to prevent public and school libraries from using many of the terrific online tools out there to serve and educate their patrons. [...]