http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/02/04/first-blumenthal-came-for-erotic-services/ Sex & the internet, by Melissa Gira Grant Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/02/04/first-blumenthal-came-for-erotic-services/#comment-1205 Gatherdust Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:06:04 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=556#comment-1205 Richard Blumenthal is eying either the Governor's mansion (which is a pretty shabby hovel compared to the McMansions that are all the rage among the recently affluent) or he wants to be Senator. He's waiting for an easy election in Connecticut - which have been few in coming - and so he's banking the political profits of the recent moral panics. And he's banking on people's general ignorance of the online world (or computers generally - why does my computer have a cup holder is a question, not a tired joke). Remember, Connecticut destroyed a woman's life because she just happened to click on a link that produced a shitstorm of adult oriented pics and ads while a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut. The State's Attorney office (separate from the grandstanding Conn AG) is just as computer illiterate but nonetheless brought the state even greater shame with a les miserables effort to punish this woman. Richard Blumenthal is eying either the Governor’s mansion (which is a pretty shabby hovel compared to the McMansions that are all the rage among the recently affluent) or he wants to be Senator. He’s waiting for an easy election in Connecticut - which have been few in coming - and so he’s banking the political profits of the recent moral panics. And he’s banking on people’s general ignorance of the online world (or computers generally - why does my computer have a cup holder is a question, not a tired joke). Remember, Connecticut destroyed a woman’s life because she just happened to click on a link that produced a shitstorm of adult oriented pics and ads while a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut. The State’s Attorney office (separate from the grandstanding Conn AG) is just as computer illiterate but nonetheless brought the state even greater shame with a les miserables effort to punish this woman.

]]> http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/02/04/first-blumenthal-came-for-erotic-services/#comment-1168 Sexerati | danah boyd on the MySpace sex panic that isn’t Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:44:31 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=556#comment-1168 [...] but with PR, like Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s latest media moment concerning the deletion of over 90,000 “sex offenders” from MySpace. Writes boyd, “We see a number like 90,000 and expect that it’s high and outrageous. [...] [...] but with PR, like Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s latest media moment concerning the deletion of over 90,000 “sex offenders” from MySpace. Writes boyd, “We see a number like 90,000 and expect that it’s high and outrageous. [...]

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