UK government warns off YouTube

THE BBC REPORTS that Alan Johnson, a travailliste MP who is the minister of education, is trying to get vidsite YouTube to censor films taking the wee out of teachers.

Apparently some pranksters posted a film of kids pulling down a teacher's trousers and Johnson will, in a speech today, describe this as the dark side of technology.

Sheesh.

I guess that things haven't changed that much over time. In our day, some kids did nasty things like fire air rifle darts into the board as the poor teacher attempted to teach us Latin. Some other kids nicked some noxious stuff from the chemistry labs in a bid to overthrow the hegemony of pedagogy.

It was noteworthy that the same kids kept their firearms out of sight when there was a teacher around that they feared and/or respected.

One big problem with the UK is the exercise of petty power. When you give some mini-mind some real power, they exercise their pathetic brain cells by inventing new rules to further limit peoples' rights.

In the scale of things, pulling down a teacher's trousers and filming it on a mobile seems a little less wicked than firing darts at them with an airgun, or blowing up the school, doncha think? µ