[LINK] COPA Report soon

[Kimberley Heitman]

>From Gigalaw:

[FREE SPEECH]
Commission Expected to Recommend Against Internet Filters
     A commission created by Congress to study ways to protect children
online will advise against requiring public schools and libraries to use
filtering software, even as lawmakers in the waning days of the
legislative session consider mandating the use of such tools. In a report
expected to be released Friday, the 18-member panel, set up under the 1998
Child Online Protection Act, recommends that government should encourage
the use of filtering technology to protect children from the Internet's
seedier neighborhoods. It also will call on industry to improve filtering
software.
     Read the article: The Wall Street Journal @
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB971914780616708314.htm
(nb: this site requires registration)

Now just suppose that the panel agrees that filters are useless, and most
of the world doesn't use them. Purely hypothetically, this would suggest
that the Government's Internet regulation strategy is predicated on
incorrect assumptions, and may perhaps require a review. 

Kimberley Heitman

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                        Kimberley James Heitman
http://www.multiline.com.au/~kheit/                 kheitman@it.net.au
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