I propose that this will be as effective as the war on drugs. Sure, some kids will write their essays, get some free stuff, and the salespeople, uh, I mean, volunteer educators, will feel as if they did a good job.
But consider the following:
1. Low income children do not have the access to computers and network connections that more well-to-do children have. I doubt, therefore, that they're reaching their target audience.
2. What's more effective at influencing behavior, some JA instructor or your cool friends giving you a copy of the latest hit song/album that they ripped off the net?
3. One sided propaganda campaigns may make people feel good, but they gloss over serious issues (ie, copyright, fair use, etc) and end up breeding a ridiculous environment in which people claim to want such rules and laws yet break them anyway.
All of this sounds a lot like the war on drugs. We have our "just say no" campaigns in schools, celebrities tell us to stay off the drugs, and we make all these claims about how bad drugs are for you while ignoring or outright suppressing the truth about their effects as we trample civil liberties. And just how effective is that?
...So it's OK to let people in to spew slanted propaganda at our children, just as long as we're reasonably sure that not TOO MANY will get sucked into believing what they're told?
That it's OK to lie to kids in school since they won't believe it anyway?
We have our "just say no" campaigns in schools, celebrities tell us to stay off the drugs, and we make all these claims about how bad drugs are for you while ignoring or outright suppressing the truth about their effects as we trample civil liberties. And just how effective is that?
That depends entirely on what effect you are looking for and your appreciation of that effect. It's no coincidence that the prison system is one of the biggest industries in the U.S., nor is it a coincidence that drug policy en
Another reason it will be ineffective: as the students catch just one of the self-serving lies, they will forever be distrustful for the entire. program.
But in school I learned "If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it." What, I don't have to go to the music store to get music legally? Why did they tell me that then?
In the long run, this could be a good thing. When kids learn that the same people who taught them that making mix CDs is illegal claim that P2P networks should be outlawed and that ca
The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured
in billigrahams.
It'll be as effective as the war on drugs (Score:5, Insightful)
But consider the following:
1. Low income children do not have the access to computers and network connections that more well-to-do children have. I doubt, therefore, that they're reaching their target audience.
2. What's more effective at influencing behavior, some JA instructor or your cool friends giving you a copy of the latest hit song/album that they ripped off the net?
3. One sided propaganda campaigns may make people feel good, but they gloss over serious issues (ie, copyright, fair use, etc) and end up breeding a ridiculous environment in which people claim to want such rules and laws yet break them anyway.
All of this sounds a lot like the war on drugs. We have our "just say no" campaigns in schools, celebrities tell us to stay off the drugs, and we make all these claims about how bad drugs are for you while ignoring or outright suppressing the truth about their effects as we trample civil liberties. And just how effective is that?
Re:It'll be as effective as the war on drugs (Score:2)
That it's OK to lie to kids in school since they won't believe it anyway?
Are we really THAT far gone?
What I learned from the drug propaganda (Score:0)
2. Then you sell drugs to pay for your habbit, making it self supporting
3. Profit
Re:It'll be as effective as the war on drugs (Score:2)
That depends entirely on what effect you are looking for and your appreciation of that effect. It's no coincidence that the prison system is one of the biggest industries in the U.S., nor is it a coincidence that drug policy en
Re:It'll be as effective as the war on drugs (Score:1)
But in school I learned "If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it." What, I don't have to go to the music store to get music legally? Why did they tell me that then?
In the long run, this could be a good thing. When kids learn that the same people who taught them that making mix CDs is illegal claim that P2P networks should be outlawed and that ca