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FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:57:42 -0700
________________________________________ From: Lauren Weinstein [lauren () vortex com] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:24 AM To: David Farber Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet Dave, There is only one way to provide an "Internet" that meets the FCC's requirements for this proposal, and that's to NOT provide a real Internet at all. The real Internet cannot be successfully filtered or censored in such a manner (or any manner in the long run, but that's a somewhat different issue). The only "viable" course for such an, uh, "FCC-NannyNet" is a closed "walled-garden" environment. You would have to only give access to specific sites that were deemed "sanitized for your protection" in advance, and under which sufficient operational control were present to drastically limit both on-site and off-site (linked) materials. How much you want to bet that some sort of fee (probably ongoing) will end up being involved for sites that want to achieve inclusion in the FCC-NannyNet? And by the way, I'd just love to know who is going to determine the full range of what's "harmful" to "teens and adolescents" -- here we go again with the self-appointed morality cops trying to do us good. Whoopee. This whole proposal is yet another misguided and futile attempt to provide parents with cover for letting their kids use computers without a modicum of supervision most of the time, and looks very much like a sweetheart deal from the FCC for whomever gets the nod to run the FCC-NannyNet fiasco. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com - - -
________________________________________ From: David Byrden [farber1 () byrden com] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:48 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet Dave; I am intrigued by the FCC's proposal to filter "any images or text that otherwise would be harmful to teens and adolescents." There is no mention of pornographic *sounds*, the stock-in-trade of the telephone "hot line" industry. David ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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