Photos from today's NRC press briefing: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/nrc-pornography-report-may02.html
The report itself: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082749/html/ And Rep. Rick Boucher speaking over lunch at a different event: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/rick-boucher-may02.html --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52257,00.html Porn Panel Plays It Safe By Declan McCullagh 7:08 a.m. May 2, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- A government-commissioned report titled "Youth, Pornography, and the Internet" could have been a near-hysterical condemnation of technology and a cry for intrusive new laws. Instead, a 14-chapter report published Thursday by the National Research Council takes a sober look at the legal, technological and social means that parents and teachers can use to shield children and teenagers from virtual smut. The NRC group, comprised mostly of academics, lawyers and researchers, spent most of its time analyzing the situation instead of making recommendations, concluding that "there is no single or simple answer to controlling the access of minors to inappropriate material on the Web." "In what seems like an easy no-brainer issue -- we don't want our children exposed to pornography -- we found considerable complexity in the sacrifices made to the individual freedoms and rights of our citizens in order to enforce such a policy on the Internet," said Sandra Calvert, the director of the Children's Digital Media Center at Georgetown University and a member of the NRC committee. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
