I think this is very well written, but I think a bit of focus on urban/majority-minority school districts is necessary.
There are going to be clear divides between some school communities on the implementation of things like SROs and metal detectors, while at more affluent schools within the same districts you’ll see concern and opposition. Another interesting factor is the impact on urban growth amid fairly equal implementation of school safety measures backed by the federal government. The late 1990s and early 2000s were the nadir of urban decline and the beginning of turnaround for some places like D.C. It’s possible you don’t see as much growth in urban or suburban areas.
In good time, it will be covered in good time.
*takes a deep breath*.....................
Okay, I could see why they wouldn't want to risk losing their audience and the ire of parents, but what happens to Toonami? Does it become more like Miguzi? If so, then CN might NOT EVEN be around by 2007......
I think I mentioned it before but Toonami predates the POD so it'll be around in some form.
Oh yeah, it was. Will AS eventually launch?
Eventually.
According to wikipedia, Gundam Wing's first episode premiered on Toonami on March 6th, 2000. Almost a year after the columbine shootings.
Definitely butterflied away.
I also believe i saw a passing mention from cecil that social media may not become prominent/widespread in this timeline? I'm wondering why that would be, would the commercialization of the internet not happen in this timeline for some reason?
While Facebook-style social media seems to be on the chopping block, what about sites like 4Chan and Reddit?
I don't recall saying something to that affect but social media will be changed, not averted. As for more controversial websites, you'll see.
Look at how they barely react to a school shooting being stopped in the last update yet hype and hype and hype up incidents were people are actually harmed. Remind you of anything?
It's something that's unfortunately quite true to life. Look at a shooting with a low or nonexistent kill count and compare it to the media attention devoted to something with more fatalities.
Considering that the last chapter mentioned Adult Swim (sorry, Parental Block) has been cancelled "just in case", I'm sure about Nickelodeon producers TTL do the same thing with Invader Zim
I'm sorry, but I don't know anything about Invader Zim, so I have to ask if the show really is that "violent/dangerous" that Nickelodeon would pull it from airing ITTL.
There's no way Invader Zim would air ITTL. At least not in the timeframe it did.
I wonder if the internet will require age licenses to access - maybe a personal ID separate from a SSN that has to inputted before logging to a browser, and said licenses are temporary “to reduce radicalizations”. And to renew licenses, you need to write down your top 10 visited sites, and hand them to a bureaucrat who will check 1) if they correspond to your search history 2) if they are deemed “safe” of political, violent or sexual content
It's not impossible to imagine an Internet you'd need to input a national ID into every time you use it.
Alternately once web browsing cookies become a thing, a cookie tracks all your activity online and sends it back to some bureaucrat somewhere who reviews everything as mentioned above
This could further be divided by occupation for viewing certain content. For example, online films or records on childbirth or gynecology or sexual [bleep] may be only licensed to MED-#### holders, and images or footage of war crimes and massacres may only be shown by HIS-#### holders, and classes teaching content have get permission from say, a MED-### holder, and the -### holder has to email someone a letter explaining the circumstances of showing this material, and a signoff from the professor , in order to show it
Uh...no. No to all of that. China doesn't even do that.
How long will this period be going on? Will stuff be delayed not cancelled outright?
The 2010’s? The 2020’s?
Some things will be delayed and others are going to be scrapped. I neglected to mention it but thanks to butterflies involving the Xbox getting cancelled and Microsoft splitting up Halo is never getting released.
Homeschooling will not resolve anything as it mean more work for the parents and frankly homeschooling is a lot associated with antiscientific/christianuberconservative teaching so in a decade or two the american labor market will face the problem of barely literate people entering the workforce.
Actually homeschooling is associated with higher academic achievement.
well all this plan to give money to parents to homeschool the kids can quickly become a big scandal/controversies like the one in Florida
You'd have to elaborate on what happened because I'm not familiar with it.
Rest of the World: doubt that outside of the Anglosphere the american measure will be even thought to be taken in consideration and even in Canada and UK after the calm will return parents will protest and things will go back to normal (more or less)...hell it's more probable that the various nation look at what happen in the USA as 'How not to do'
You're pretty much on point, and again this is largely why I avoided mentioning anything related to Zero Tolerance outside the Anglosphere. I couldn't find anything that suggested these policies were seriously considered outside English speaking countries so chose not to comment.
Also, the Skakel Trial exposed Elan's abuses in 2002 so that might get a lot more attention here.
The Skakel trial was far from a sure thing OTL, and despite it Elan continued until 2011 with pretty good press up until roughly the last year of its lifespan.
