Time to get serious

Alright, so anyone who somewhat pays attention to the news knows that it gets distorted and then some. Being some what involved in the punk/hardcore scene, I see lots of different posts/information that really blows up mainstream media/the goverment. Now, being a conservative, I generally blow this stuff off. Lately I have been doing more research to try and understand opposing opinions better. Today I saw this little blurb (I'm WhiteCollar) about hollywood-backed legislation that would supposedly give the government the power to cut off all governent loans/grants to a college or university if even one student was caught illegally downloading copyrighted media. Of course in the comments section all these commie liberal
"I hate the government" punkers (of which I used to be) immediatly blow up and post all sorts of stupid ignorant crap. So to back myself up, I read the article the blurb was about and didn't see anything that said the government could cut off any sort of funding to colleges based for the aforementioned reasons. Still giving punknews the benefit of the doubt, I looked up the bill and found the exact section they were talking about. Section 494, page 411. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING that says they will cut off funding based on that. What it says is that colleges and universities will have to "develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity." They don't even have to implement the plans. Just DEVELOP them. Maybe I'm just being ignorant and naive, but damn. It's a pretty big leap to say that participating institutions will get cut off because of ONE student.


The lesson here: Don't blindly follow what ANYONE says as truth. Investigate for yourself and form your own opinions.