Panderer General Roy Cooper has found a new hot button: MySpace. MySpace is the new meth. MySpace is coming after your children and only Roy Cooper can save them.
Cooper wants to require MySpace to require parental consent to log on to the Web site. Brilliant. That’ll stop teenagers from wanting to post pictures of themselves and friends acting “hip” and adult, engage in pointless banter, share music that they like, and generally act like goofy teenagers. The cure for those awkward teen years? Roy Cooper, making laws up in Raleigh.
As usual, Cooper also throws out some scare words — “predators” and “child porn” — in order to maximize his pander potential. The guy has absolutely no shame.
And neither does this dolt:
Sen. Walter Dalton, a Rutherford Democrat and co-chair of the powerful appropriations committee, said the legislation has a good chance of passage.
“Everybody wants to do something about predators,” said Dalton, who joined Cooper at the announcement. “There are going to be a lot of questions about how you enforce it, the parental consent, a lot of talk about what technology can do.”
Since when did Rutherford get on the wide-world Intertubes? Boy, that was a mistake. Somebody yank their 300 baud modem before this rube discovers Internet gambling.
