Via Doc Searls comes this Wired story about a truly, truly stupid police department - not to mention a school system with no brains:

You're reading correctly. Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl didn't have porn on his MySpace profile, and he didn't link to porn. But one of the 170-odd people on his friends list, which seems mostly populated by students at his school, had a link to a legal adult site. Now the New Port Richey Police Department and the Florida attorney general's elite cyber crimes unit are investigating him for making adult content available to underage children.

So... every major newspaper in the country is a porn site by this logic - best not ever ask a student to check the Times - who knows what corruption lurks a link or 2 away? As to the school? Well, they learned almost immediately just how stupid an idea this whole thing was:

And golly, it looks like the school involved has its own indirect link contents problems, too. Gulf Middle School's "Resources" page links to a variety of clip art sites, and they link to ... well ... let's just say that the entire internet opens up at that stage. ...

The school system apparently took their site down after "3 link standard" became clear. Is the standard now going to be that we all need to check out every link out of our own pages every minute or two? To how far a depth?

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