It strikes me that these two stories are going to relate.
How will parental Monitering and Blasphemy inter relate ?
How will the teenagers who will be the next generation going to “play this”?
“Following continuing pressure from politicians (and parts of the media), MySpace is planning to offer parents the chance to download software which will monitor aspects of their children’s activities on the social networking site.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are using to represent themselves on MySpace. The software doesn’t enable parents to read their child’s e-mail or see the child’s profile page and children would be alerted that their information was being shared. The program would continue to send updates about changes in the child’s name, age and location, even when the child logs on from other computers.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=68
In the last few years, Americans have seen the harm that results when political decisions are made in the name of religion. Now, the non-believers are fighting back
A group calling itself “The Rational Response Squad,” has launched The Blasphemy Challenge, a campaign to entice young people to publicly renounce belief in the God of Christianity. Participants who videotape their blasphemy and upload it to YouTube will receive a free DVD of The God Who Wasn’t There, a number one bestselling independent documentary at Amazon.com.