ADVISORY/Commission Meets to Protect Children Online.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000 TOPIC: With the blockage of Congressional efforts to pass laws Pass laws in South Africa were designed to segregate the population and were one of the dominant features of the country's apartheid system. Introduced in South Africa in 1923, they were designed to regulate movement of black Africans into urban areas. designed to keep kids away from online pornography, a special commission has been established to protect children online, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reported today. Previous Internet child-protection attempts, including the Child Online Protection Act Not to be confused with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Child Online Protection Act[1] (COPA)[2] is a law in the United States of America, passed in 1998 with the declared purpose of protecting minors from harmful sexual material on the , were deemed unconstitutional by the First Amendment. The 19-member Commission on Child Online Protection, which includes a mix of industry leaders, administration officials, security experts and academics, reportedly will meet today at the Department of Commerce. Stephen Balkam, executive director of the Internet Content Rating Association ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for (ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association, www.icra.org) An organization dating back to 1994 that was created to protect children from potentially harmful online content and to protect free speech on the Internet. ICRA did not rate Web sites or label the content. ), specializes in protecting children on the Internet. 301-260-8669 sbalkam@icra.org J. Gary Mitchell
Gary Mitchell (born May 3, 1965) is a Northern Irish playwright. From a working-class, loyalist background, first foray into writing was for Radio 4. , president of J. Gary Mitchell Film Co., has produced an educational documentary on teen safety on the Internet and has been producing child advocacy films and videos for 30 years. 707-829-5484 office@empowerkids.com Tina Sharkey is group vice president and general manager of Children's Television Workshop Children's Television Workshop: see Cooney, Joan Ganz. Online. She can comment on children and the Web, and kids and Internet surfing. 212-741-5106, ex. 23 jeff@yeahwhatever.com Jim O'Halloran is director of marketing, N2H2, Inc. He is an expert on education technology, and is a strong supporter of protecting children on the Internet by filtering Web access at schools and libraries. 206-336-2911 kristin@n2h2.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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