Marian Merritt at Symantec blogs on “YouTube Is Top Kid Destination; How To Enjoy It Safely”
Here’s a page with a video on Community Guidelines for YouTube along with flagging guidelines for inappropriate content (videos, not comments). Any user with an account can flag as inappropriate a video that includes violent, sexual, or hate promoting content. Please note, YouTube states in their Terms of Service that the site is intended for users over the age of 13 but there is absolutely no way for them to police adherence to that policy…
iKeepSafe writes about, “Educators: iKeepSafe Digital Citizenship C3 Matrix Published in Threshold Magazine”
iKeepSafe is pleased to announce that we provided the feature article in the Summer 2009 issue of Cable in the Classroom’s (CIC)Threshold Magazine. Many people worked to make this issue as effective as possible, and we are delighted with the result…
Anne Collier at Net Family News gives us a “Sexting Legislative Update”
Vermont lawmakers reconfigured state child-pornography law so that “that minors caught sexting would not be charged with a felony and forced to register as sex offenders, so long as the incident was done voluntarily and without coercion…”
Safe Internet Alliance tells us about “FOSI and Womble Carlyle: Wednesdays with Winston”
On June 24th, Safe Internet went to the 2nd Wednesdays with Winston program hosted by Family Online Safety Institute and Womble Carlyle. Each event is different but all of them aim to discuss what’s happening in online safety at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Yesterday’s discussion centered around the implementation of the Child Safe Viewing Act and the examination of Parental Control Technologies for Video or Audio Programming…
PC Pandora says that “Law Officials Say Web Study Glosses Over Risks”
It appears that some experts are saying that the data used was outdated and some who are even part of the group are discouraged with the final report. Below is the full article. I have highlighted in red all the parts that I consider to be red flags…
Stanley Holditch at Internet Safety.com talks about an “ACLU Lawyer Compares Blocking Pornography to Ripping Apart Encyclopedia”
I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen stories about people misusing libraries as their own personal adult theater. It’s especially sickening since most of the people caught aren’t just looking at porn, but more often than not child pornography, which of course is illegal…
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