School/Library ban on social sites proposed...
US law proposed to ban library access to social websites
According to the proposed legislation (~May 10, 2006), the bill
"prohibits access by minors without parental authorization to a commercial social networking website or chat room through which minors may easily access or be presented with obscene or in- decent material; may easily be subject to unlawful sexual advances, unlawful requests for sexual favors, or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults may easily access other material that is harmful to minors."
LA Times article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-myspace12may12,1,5165050.story?coll=la-news-a_section
More information and opinions at VALIS, Learning.now, Boing Boing, TechDirt, and Danah Boyd's (no relation) apophenia blog
According to the proposed legislation (~May 10, 2006), the bill
"prohibits access by minors without parental authorization to a commercial social networking website or chat room through which minors may easily access or be presented with obscene or in- decent material; may easily be subject to unlawful sexual advances, unlawful requests for sexual favors, or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults may easily access other material that is harmful to minors."
LA Times article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-myspace12may12,1,5165050.story?coll=la-news-a_section
More information and opinions at VALIS, Learning.now, Boing Boing, TechDirt, and Danah Boyd's (no relation) apophenia blog
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