Ted Stevens, whose Deleting Online Predators Act what shot down in the Senate last year, is back with another bill that goes even further. Fearing that children might choke on the tubes, Stevens introduced the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, which would ban sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools.

It’s not just popular socializing sites that are the target of this bill, but also interactive websites like Digg and del.icio.us. Video sharing sites would have to develop a way to prevent material that could be harmful to a child from making its way on to their site. I guess Mr. Stevens would decide what content is objectionable. He’d probably ban things like that video of himself telling the Senate that the internet is not a dump truck, it’s full of tubes. In addition, he’s ban the 3,956 other videos on various video sharing sites that make him look like a jackass.

If you’re viewing this site right now, it means Ted Stevens is losing, because he’d surely shut this rant down.

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