Dave Weigel points out MyDeathSpace, a site that provides links to the MySpace pages of people who have recently died. Dave is counting the hours until Congress bans the site. I’m not so sure, though. There’s no doubt that the idea is tasteless, and I certainly wonder about anyone who visits the site regularly. But it’s hard to think of a good rationale to make the site illegal. I mean, you can’t just make it illegal to link to web sites created by dead people, and the site isn’t really hurting anyone. Of course, that doesn’t mean Congress won’t think of some way to score political points by shutting the site down, but maybe, like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, the site will continue to be tacky but not illegal.
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