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- Deleting Online Predators bill revived
- After espousing the evils of MySpace, some presidential hopefuls are now busily posting their personal profiles in order to increase their exposure, reports eSchool News. In spite of last years vote in favor of forcing libraries and schools who receive federal funding to nix MySpace, Republicans Duncan Hunter...
- Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Web technology, Deleting Online Predators Act, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Deleting Online Predators Act: R.I.P.
- Deleting Online Predators Act: R.I.P.DOPE-UhAptly named. NRIW No rest in war is what this one deserves . . .
- Tags: Deleting Online Predators Act, R.I.P.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Deleting Online Predators Act: R.I.P.
- It looks like the Deleting Online Predators Act DOPA has died a slow death. DOPA was proposed during the height of last years moral panic around the issue of child safety and sites like MySpace. The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools...
- Tags: Deleting Online Predators Act, MySpace, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Congress returns to vote on DOPA
- When Congress returns to session after Labor Day, one of the edtech items at the top of the agenda will be the Deleting Online Predators Act DOPA, which purports to protect students by outright banning the use of virtually all modern Internet services, eSchoolNews reports. The House approved the bill...
- Tags: Deleting Online Predators Act
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
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- DOPA returns from the dead
- It seems I was a little premature in writing an obituary for the Delete Online Predators Act DOPA. Senator Ted "the Internets a bunch of tubes" Stevens has introduced a new bill, much of which, as Andy Carvin reports, has a rather DOPA-esque ring to it.The Protecting Children in the...
- Tags: Social Networks, e-learning, Delete Online Predators Act
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- News to know: IT exec sellouts; Bezos' spacecraft
- The daily reading list:Cisco to spend $830 million for e-mail security firm.Google reader adds metrics.Amazon answers Yahoo: Askville launches.Walt Mossberg says Office 2007 an improvement, but theres a learning curve. How IT execs sell out their organizations. Home Depot’s CEO switch could alter IT strategy. In focus: Apples month of...
- Tags: information technology, IT Exec, Consumer Electronics Show, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Call to fight DOPA in Senate
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation is leading a grass-roots efforts to block passage of the Deleting Online Predators Act. Passed by the House earlier this year, the bill is up for Senate action now that Congress has returned for a final session before the elections. The proposal would...
- Tags: DoPa
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Candidate wants to expand online child predator stings
- A candidate for the Republican nomination for Ohio Attorney General is championing a proposal to expand online sting operations for child predators, the Dayton Daily News reports. Calling it the Targeting Online Predators Priority (TOP Priority, get it?), candidate Betty Montgomery, currently the state's chief auditor, held a news...
- Tags: Xenia, child predator
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
- Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal
- Microsoft lands Facebook ad dealBill's MySpace, its MySpace Bill DOPAThe Deleting Online Predators Act would force schools and libraries to block access to online chat and social networking. DOPA is often called the "MySpace Bill" and it would require schools and libraries to filter access to chat and social networking...
- Tags: INTERNET, Facebook, advertisement, Bill DOPA, social networking, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- DOPA bill would require schools to restrict online usage
- MySpace.com and its ilk got a major fingerwagging recently as politicians accused the social networking sites of failing to protect minors from sexual predators and other bad social influences, reports News.com. A House subcommittee debated whether schools and libraries should require some form of Internet ID that would bar...
- Tags: DoPa
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- Response to Fitzpatrick legislation
- There's a general recognition that MySpace should do more to protect kids using the site from child predators. For instance, the NewsCorp-owned service recently hired Hemanshu Nigam, formerly consumer security at Microsoft, as security czar. Earlier this month, Massachusetts called on MySpace to go further and disallow teen...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Republican bill would ban social networking from schools, libraries
- Schools and libraries would effectively have to ban students and patrons from MySpace and other social networking sites if a Republican sponsored bill becomes law, News.com is reporting. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, ... and fellow Republicans, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, on Wednesday endorsed...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Michael Fitzpatrick, Web, Web site, networking, social networking
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
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