eLearning, Social Networking, & DOPA
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert have endorsed new legislation that would "require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms."
Not only would the Deleting Online Predators Act effectively amend the Communications Act of 1934, it would also require the FTC and/or FCC to monitor sites that let users create public web pages or profiles along with sites that offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service.
Web Resources
Not only would the Deleting Online Predators Act effectively amend the Communications Act of 1934, it would also require the FTC and/or FCC to monitor sites that let users create public web pages or profiles along with sites that offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service.
Web Resources
posted by Derek Baird at
16:17
1 Comments:
Mobilize.org is launching a new campaign in response to Congress’ attempt to censor the communication of our generation. We have created the action alert below and built a website, www.mobilize.org/SOS. We are hoping to get as much grassroots action as possible around this important issue, especially from the online community.
Breaking News:
Legislation introduced this week will ban social networking, even sites used for educational and professional opportunities. What’s next? HR5319 will censor the communication of our generation and tell us who we can talk to, when and how. Tell Congress that social networking is a movement that we built, a movement that we are going to fight for.
Visit www.mobilize.org/SOS, take action, tell your friends and get mad.
---
The bill blocks the use of these sites in public libraries, which is for many, the only access that they have to a computer. Our hope is to be able to amend the bill to take these facts into consideration. We agree that there need to be safeguards put in place for "sexual predators" and any of other crimes that might occur because of the accessibility of information on these sites, but to ban them in schools (including using school computers afterschool) and public libraries, is for many - banning social networking.
By
Mobilize, At
15 May, 2006 12:45
Post a Comment
<< Home