Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on July 25, 2007, 07:19:11 PM
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Submitted by Adam Thomas on Wed, 2007-07-25 20:47. Americas Tech United States News
US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.
Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.
While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their childs online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material," Sen. Inouye said. In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections."
"Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether," Sen. Stevens said. "The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are difficult, I believe Congress has an important role to play to ensure that the protections available in other parts of our society find their way to the Internet."
The measures they are calling for include directing the Federal Communications Commission to identify industry practices "that can limit the transmission of child pornography" and requiring the Federal Trade Commission to form a working group to identify blocking and filtering technologies in use and "identify, what, if anything could be done to improve the process and better enable parents to proactively protect their children online."
"In its zeal to protect kids from predators and potentially inappropriate content, Congress must not trample the First Amendment rights of Internet users," Center for Democracy and Technology said in a statement submitted to the Committee today.
They highlighted the finding of a report prepared by diverse group of people including individuals with expertise in constitutional law, law enforcement, libraries and library science, information retrieval and representation, developmental and social psychology, Internet and other information technologies, ethics, and education found that public policy can go far beyond the creation of statutory punishment for violating some approved canon of behavior.
"[T]he most important finding of the committee is that developing in children and youth an ethic of responsible choice and skills for appropriate behavior is foundational for all efforts to protect themwith respect to inappropriate sexually explicit material on the Internet as well as many other dangers on the Internet and in the physical world," the Thornburgh Committee concluded.
US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.
Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.
While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their childs online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material," Sen. Inouye said. In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections."
"Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether," Sen. Stevens said. "The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are difficult, I believe Congress has an important role to play to ensure that the protections available in other parts of our society find their way to the Internet."
The measures they are calling for include directing the Federal Communications Commission to identify industry practices "that can limit the transmission of child pornography" and requiring the Federal Trade Commission to form a working group to identify blocking and filtering technologies in use and "identify, what, if anything could be done to improve the process and better enable parents to proactively protect their children online."
"In its zeal to protect kids from predators and potentially inappropriate content, Congress must not trample the First Amendment rights of Internet users," Center for Democracy and Technology said in a statement submitted to the Committee today.
They highlighted the finding of a report prepared by diverse group of people including individuals with expertise in constitutional law, law enforcement, libraries and library science, information retrieval and representation, developmental and social psychology, Internet and other information technologies, ethics, and education found that public policy can go far beyond the creation of statutory punishment for violating some approved canon of behavior.
"[T]he most important finding of the committee is that developing in children and youth an ethic of responsible choice and skills for appropriate behavior is foundational for all efforts to protect themwith respect to inappropriate sexually explicit material on the Internet as well as many other dangers on the Internet and in the physical world," the Thornburgh Committee concluded.
Post by: tyme on July 25, 2007, 09:20:53 PM
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US senators today made a bipartisan call for...
Plurality voting and game theory turn the difference between the two major parties into a joke. Even if we had two real parties with real differences, there would still almost always be one Dem and one Repub that agree on a given issue. Two senators espousing a view does not make that view bipartisan.
Dasmi, you're aware of Ted Steven's hysterics about net neutrality last year, right? I'm not sure what more we can expect from a Senator who thinks that delivery of content on the internet is free for content providers, or that a several-day delay in his email was caused by companies exploiting the internet by over-filling its "tubes".
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on July 25, 2007, 09:31:21 PM
Post by: Ned Hamford on July 25, 2007, 10:18:10 PM
Post by: Standing Wolf on July 26, 2007, 12:35:18 AM
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Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.
Socialist idiots like that make me proud to be a libertarian.
Post by: Thor on July 26, 2007, 01:30:07 AM
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on July 26, 2007, 02:24:41 AM
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US senators today made a bipartisan call for...
Unless the next three words in that sentence are "war"
"on"
and
"France"
then that sentence is _always_ bad news.
~BakerMike
Post by: roo_ster on July 26, 2007, 02:35:13 AM
Post by: Tallpine on July 26, 2007, 08:40:48 AM
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on July 26, 2007, 08:45:21 AM
"The only thing worse than a democrat or a republican, is when these pricks work together! You have the republican party, the party of bad ideas, and democratic party, the party of no ideas. Here's how it works in congress. The republicans stands up and says 'I got a really bad idea!' and the democrat says 'and I can make it shittier!'"
-Lewis Black.
Post by: Nick1911 on July 26, 2007, 09:27:11 AM
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Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.
Socialist idiots like that make me proud to be a libertarian.
Amen to that.
Yet again, knowledge is power.
Post by: Boomhauer on July 26, 2007, 11:40:51 AM
Paraphrase:
"The only thing worse than a democrat or a republican, is when these pricks work together! You have the republican party, the party of bad ideas, and democratic party, the party of no ideas. Here's how it works in congress. The republicans stands up and says 'I got a really bad idea!' and the democrat says 'and I can make it shittier!'"
-Lewis Black.
"The only thing worse than a democrat or a republican, is when these pricks work together! You have the republican party, the party of bad ideas, and democratic party, the party of no ideas. Here's how it works in congress. The republicans stands up and says 'I got a really bad idea!' and the democrat says 'and I can make it shittier!'"
-Lewis Black.
Ain't that the truth!
Post by: Mannlicher on July 26, 2007, 01:04:42 PM
Post by: Paddy on July 26, 2007, 01:31:14 PM
stuff money into their pockets as fast as they can. This is just another diversion, to keep the rubes occupied fighting amongst themselves.