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Act Against Predators May Block Kids From Social Network Access
SecurityProNews
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2006-08-01
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Last week, the United States House of Representatives approved an act called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).
The DOPA, obviously as its name suggests, is meant to rid online communities of sexual predators. The Act is focused mainly at social networking sites like MySpace.
Some are worried that the act will prevent kids from being able to access such sites instead of only protecting them. There is concern that access to such sites will be blocked at schools and libraries. According to CIO.com, Under DOPA, affected entities would have to install safeguards to stop kids from accessing social network sites, or sites where they could be faced with "unlawful sexual advances," unless they are under adult supervision, according to BBC News.
What sites qualify as social networking locales will be decided by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission-a detail critics say could lead to huge problems with legitimate sites being blocked, because the act suggests that any site that enables users to build personal profiles and converse with other users should be inaccessible to children in specified locations, BBC News reports. The act was originally presented by Ohio congressman Michael Fitzgerald.
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