In the United States offer to introduce a ban on social sites
In America, they are preparing a law prohibiting access from schools and public libraries to social sites and blogger services such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Facebook. A large-scale propaganda campaign was launched in the country about the danger of social sites for children and teenagers.
Several articles were immediately published in the most influential American media in recent weeks. They are about the dangers that children and adolescents are participating in virtual communities like MySpace or LiveJournal (LJ). Immature minds, they say, are open to the harmful influence of outsiders, of whom there are tens of millions in social networks. At the same time, parents lose control over their children, who are headlong into the virtual world.
In this regard, US lawmakers are proposing to adopt the DOPA law, that is, the Deleting Online Predators Act , which will prohibit access to social websites from schools and public libraries. It is possible that the adoption of the law will be followed up. Once on the list of prohibited sites, social sites will get the appropriate image and will be blocked in the future wherever the filtering software is installed. In other words, the adoption of DOPA will mean the official recognition of the harmful essence of social sites and blogger services. This initiative was made by representatives of the Republican Party, known for its conservative views.
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The DOPA bill makes additions to another federal law, the Children's Internet Protection Act , adopted back in December 2000. It obliges schools and libraries that receive government funding to restrict Internet access to malicious content. Now, along with sexual content resources, social networks can also be included in the list of “malicious” sites.
Lobbyists of the new bill claim that its goal is to block access to the websites of younger students. However, it is this age category that constitutes a significant and active part of MySpace and LiveJournal users.
Not only social and blogger sites can be banned, but also other services that fall under the rather broad definition given in the text of the bill. These are commercial sites that allow users to create public “web pages or profiles” and offer tools for communication, chat, or email service. This definition includes not only social networks, but even IM services and, for example, a Microsoft Xbox 360 console with the possibility of gaming chat.
Naturally, social services quickly responded to the new threat and took all measures to reassure politicians and parent organizations. For example, MySpace owners have announced the employment of about 100 specialized personnel (this is a third of the company's entire staff) to monitor the behavior of service users in order to ensure compliance with the law and ethical standards.
Several articles were immediately published in the most influential American media in recent weeks. They are about the dangers that children and adolescents are participating in virtual communities like MySpace or LiveJournal (LJ). Immature minds, they say, are open to the harmful influence of outsiders, of whom there are tens of millions in social networks. At the same time, parents lose control over their children, who are headlong into the virtual world.
In this regard, US lawmakers are proposing to adopt the DOPA law, that is, the Deleting Online Predators Act , which will prohibit access to social websites from schools and public libraries. It is possible that the adoption of the law will be followed up. Once on the list of prohibited sites, social sites will get the appropriate image and will be blocked in the future wherever the filtering software is installed. In other words, the adoption of DOPA will mean the official recognition of the harmful essence of social sites and blogger services. This initiative was made by representatives of the Republican Party, known for its conservative views.
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The DOPA bill makes additions to another federal law, the Children's Internet Protection Act , adopted back in December 2000. It obliges schools and libraries that receive government funding to restrict Internet access to malicious content. Now, along with sexual content resources, social networks can also be included in the list of “malicious” sites.
Lobbyists of the new bill claim that its goal is to block access to the websites of younger students. However, it is this age category that constitutes a significant and active part of MySpace and LiveJournal users.
Not only social and blogger sites can be banned, but also other services that fall under the rather broad definition given in the text of the bill. These are commercial sites that allow users to create public “web pages or profiles” and offer tools for communication, chat, or email service. This definition includes not only social networks, but even IM services and, for example, a Microsoft Xbox 360 console with the possibility of gaming chat.
Naturally, social services quickly responded to the new threat and took all measures to reassure politicians and parent organizations. For example, MySpace owners have announced the employment of about 100 specialized personnel (this is a third of the company's entire staff) to monitor the behavior of service users in order to ensure compliance with the law and ethical standards.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4048/
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