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In October, 1998, Congress enacted the Child Online Protection Act and established the Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA) to study methods to help reduce access by minors to certain sexually explicit material, defined in the statute as harmful to minors. Congress directed the Commission to evaluate the accessibility, cost, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Child Safety, Children, Federal Legislation
2000
The appendices for the Commission on Child Online Protection (COPA) Report to Congress, October 20, 2000, include the following: Commission overview, which includes scope and timeline, original statute, amended statute, technologies and methods, and biographies of the commissioners; Commission finances; Commission meetings for the year 2000;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Child Safety, Children, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1988
Science and technology may affect the balance between First Amendment rights and government interests by changing power relationships between individuals and between individuals and the state. Technology will give rise to new ways of communicating which amplify the ways in which individuals and organizations express themselves. New technologies,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Broadcast Industry, Electronic Publishing, Freedom of Information
