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May 09, 2006

The phone call that saved the Internet

If you're an American, call your representatives. Now. Urge congresspeople to support Ed Markey's amendment. Urge senators to support the Snowe/Dorgan Internet Freedom bill. The future generations will thank you. (You remember the future generations, don't you? They're the ones that will be paying off the Bush debt.) [Tags: net_neutrality digital_rights]

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 9, 2006 11:47 AM

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Posted by: Anonymous | May 9, 2006 12:10 PM

Another threat: Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) introduced on May 11, 2006

As danah boyd wrote at apophenia,

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/05/11/antisocial_netw.html

Congressperson Fitzpatrick proposed legislation to amend the Communications Act of 1934 "to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms." This legislation broadly defines social network sites as anything that includes a Profile plus an ability to communicate with strangers. It covers social networking sites, chatrooms, bulletin boards. Obviously, the target is MySpace but most of our industry would be affected. Blogger, Flickr, Odeo, LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, AIM, Yahoo! Groups, MSN Spaces, YouTube, eBaumsworld, Slashdot.

Will Richardson has started a wiki

http://dopa.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

to collect letters in opposition to DOPA.

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