Kids say the darndest things

by digby

Gawker collected a few tweets from teenagers with late homework:

“How am I supposed to do homework tomorrow without wikipedia? Seriously how about Washington gets rid of SOPA, and President Obama of course”

“How am I supposed to study for my history final when fucking congress passed a bill that took down wikipedia?”

“Wikipedia banned by US Congress????”

Maybe there’s a lesson here, eh teachers?

Despite these kids’ er … misapprehension, I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic in saying that the internet is the greatest advance in education since the printing press and has the potential to eventually give every person on the planet an avenue to change their fate. It needs to remain as free and expansive as possible.

Update: Some people, no matter what their age,are hopeless, however:

Media Matters:

This argument, it should be noted, makes absolutely no sense and demonstrates the profound technical ignorance of a man with huge influence over tech policy.

But it makes enough sense for Fox News, which reported the absurd spin from its parent company on SOPA without noting their parent company’s support for the bill.