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In its continuing quest to protect children from harmful content (or contact) online, Congress has drafted a new bill. The House of Representatives approved the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (H.R. 5319) at the end of July, and it's now awaiting review by a Senate committee.
The law's goals are -- as usual in cases like this -- good ones. Congress wants to protect children who may be exposed to sexual predators while they're in a Web chat room with friends, or who may be preyed upon because they've divulged too much information, posted photos of themselves, or been lured into inappropriate conversations through a social networking site such as MySpace.
To achieve these goals, the proposed bill would require schools and libraries that receive a certain kind of federal funding to not only filter content (as they do now) but to restrict or outright prohibit children from going to commercial social networking sites and chat rooms on a publicly accessible computer. Congress's apparent intent is to help parents by providing some degree of supervision of their children's online activities while the kids are away from home.
I support the goals of this legislation, but I am concerned that it may be overly broad, and may wind up restricting access to sites with perfectly legitimate and harmless content.
The Senate has taken a separate action to protect children online via a provision in a massive telecommunications reform bill. The bill (H.R. 5252) was passed by the House of Representatives in June but has since undergone significant revision in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Its approach to child protection is more far reaching than that of DOPA, as it would set up a federal ratings system for all commercial Web sites and impose criminal penalties for violations. Depending on its implementation, it could cause serious problems -- perhaps creating a chilling effect on speech -- all over the Web. Because of the bill's complexity and its importance, I'll be focusing on it separately in my next column, which will also include discussion of its section on child protection.
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