The thing about the internet is you find stuff out that you wouldn’t have in the days before global communication. For instance, this Finnish documentary on Obama supporters caught one bullying a McCain-supporting student in her class. Now, in the pre-internet days this might have made a stir in the local area where it was filmed, and in Finland and wherever else the documentary was shown (which I doubt would have made the network broadcasts), but it would have disappeared into the general larger life of the world. This is why I’ll bet that after they get the radio waves wrapped up tight the new administration’s enforcers of all that is Good and Fair will try to go after the internet next. However, the internet isn’t structured like radio, and they might find they’ve bitten off more than they can chew… (Via Ace and Ace’s comments.)
On a related note, even though I have never wanted to teach I am enough of a teacher’s daughter that, after watching this comedy routine, instead of just laughing I found myself thinking: “You know, he lost control of the situation. Instead of zapping her with the sonic screwdriver he should have realized that she was a lot smarter than she acted and cleverly drawn her out of her defiant pose. That’s what a good teacher would have done.”
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