Post by leunas on Aug 2, 2006 1:39:48 GMT -5
US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies. According to the resolution’s top line summary it will “amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.”
for more, go to: www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/27/us-house-resolution-targeting-myspace-web20-passes-410-15/