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For over a decade, Dana Pretzer has been doing his own brand of unique, entertaining, informed and refreshing style of talk radio. Talk radio where he allows the guest to talk, answer questions and inform the listeners on the important news stories of the day. Dana refers to it as "Main Street Media." We like to refer to it as a welcome and appreciated change.

Dana Pretzer brings his energetic yet relaxed demeanor and his well prepared yet spontaneous style of interviews to Scared Monkeys. Along with some of the biggest and most high-profile guests in the news today. Dana also brings a background in satellite radio and over 20 years in law enforcement. That, coupled with his relaxed yet professional and focused demeanor, makes him a natural behind the SMR microphone.

Dana and Scared Monkeys Radio focuses on Missing Persons, Unsolved Mysteries, Victims Rights, Politics, Crime & Punishment, Exploited Children, Entertainment, Technology and whatever the breaking and relevant stories are of the day. The stories that people want to talk about and hear.
Daily Commentary – Friday, April 30th, 2010 – Wikipedia Accused of Distributing Kiddie Porn
April 30th, 2010 Daily Commentary

  • Fox News reports that a former Wikipedia employee notified the FBI of suspected child pornography on a Wikimedia site.


Comment from Justen Robertson April 30, 2010, 7:02 pm

What Fox didn’t mention is that this guy is a disgruntled ex-employee and that he runs a failing competing Encyclopedia site, and that he’s been on a campaign to smear Wikipedia for quite a while now by way of promoting his own product. This is not at all surprising given Fox’s scaremongering crusade against all forms of new media, headed up by the pirate-in-chief, Rupert Murdoch (arrr matey!).

While depictions of child sexuality are certainly disgusting, there are appropriate responses and inappropriate ones – and further hamhanded interference by government censors is not the solution here. It’s already illegal to distribute child pornography. Pornographic artwork depicting children has been a gray area (question being whether anyone is actually harmed by it), but is typically enforced. No new laws are necessary or desirable.

Be careful what you wish for, government intervention has a long track record of being ineffective and having unintended consequences. It should be, if anything, a last resort; when you confront a problem, first ask “if it were completely impossible for government to intervene here, how would I solve this problem,” don’t start off with “there should be a law!”. We have enough of those already, and the burden is destroying both our nations.

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