Apparently some congressman in Guatemala found that the Internet has porn. And that kids can use the Internet. Why this took him X number of years to figure out is beyond me. At any rate, the Congress is apparently discussing requireing all Internet cafes to install filtering software. They claim that 90% of kids looking for content to do with their homework run into porn. They're more gullible than I thought! “Hey! What's that stuff on your screen junior?!” “Ahh um.. it just came up! I was just trying to find out how to calculate the surface of a vortex, honest!”

The congressman says this will stop them from “losing youth”. Perhaps getting a decent education system in place, killing all funds to the military (who they gonna invade?) and getting their police force back in line might help more. [As a side note, the police here are given 5 gallons of gas per 24 hours of patrolling. And they have to pay for their own bullets.]

These are the same people who just recently voted themselves a substantial salary increase as “some of us have to travel to the capital city to do our jobs”. And believe it or not, this is the GOOD party that was running.

At any rate, I sure hope this law doesn't pass. Not because I think kids have some kind of right to go look at naked hotties, goats and sheep, or whatever, but because this kind of law is an implementation nightmare, and just leads the way for more government intervention. When a private establishment is required to do something like this, especially from a group of people who have absolutely zero technical skills, it is a receipe for disaster.

Oh, one more thing, if they're really that concerned about this kind of stuff, why don't they outlaw prostitution as a first step? (Not like that's anything that should be illegal, but hey, while we're on the subject...) Oh wait, no, that'd piss off a lot of people. Let's screw with the Internet instead.

Sigh... why is it that the Dilbert principal applies to government and not just corporations?