The COPA Commission has released it\’s Report. No endorsement of filtering programs was included. Also be sure to read the Personal Statements of the commissioners.
They recommended 12 things:
Public Education
Government and Industry Should Effectively Promote Acceptable Use Policies.
The Commission recommends allocation of resources for the independent evaluation of child protection technologies and to provide reports to the public about the capabilities of these technologies.
The Commission recommends that industry take steps to improve child protection mechanisms, and make them more accessible online.
The Commission encourages a broad, national, private sector conversation on the development of next-generation systems for labeling, rating, and identifying content reflecting the convergence of old and new media.
Continued…
The COPA Commission has released it\’s Report. No endorsement of filtering programs was included. Also be sure to read the Personal Statements of the commissioners.
They recommended 12 things:
Public Education
Government and Industry Should Effectively Promote Acceptable Use Policies.
The Commission recommends allocation of resources for the independent evaluation of child protection technologies and to provide reports to the public about the capabilities of these technologies.
The Commission recommends that industry take steps to improve child protection mechanisms, and make them more accessible online.
The Commission encourages a broad, national, private sector conversation on the development of next-generation systems for labeling, rating, and identifying content reflecting the convergence of old and new media.
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Government should encourage the use of technology in efforts to make children\’s experience of the Internet safe and useful.
Government at all levels should fund, with significant new money, aggressive programs to investigate, prosecute, and report violations of federal and state obscenity laws, including efforts that emphasize the protection of children from accessing materials illegal under current state and federal obscenity law.
The Commission recommends that state and federal law enforcement make available a list, without images, of Usenet newsgroups, IP addresses, World Wide Web sites or other Internet sources that have been found to contain child pornography or where convictions have been obtained involving obscene material.
The Commission recommends that Federal agencies, pursuant to further Congressional rulemaking authority as needed, consider greater enforcement and possibly rulemaking to discourage deceptive or unfair practices that entice children to view obscene materials, including the practices of \”mouse trapping\” and deceptive meta-tagging.
Government should provide new money to address international aspects of Internet crime, including obscenity and child pornography.
The Commission urges the ISP industry to voluntarily undertake \”best practices\” to protect minors.
The Online Commercial Adult Industry Should Voluntarily Take Steps To Restrict Minors\’ Ready Access to Adult Content.
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