FC: Photos from NRC porn-kids-Internet report briefing today

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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

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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.

   [...]




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