Telcos, cable companies and Web brands began a campaign to promot...
Telcos, cable companies and Web brands began a campaign to promote safe practices by children on the Internet. While perhaps unintended, the effort could help fend off or dilute congressional proposals for data retention mandates on ISPs and filtering…
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technologies on social networking websites. The Internet Education Foundation, whose Hill events in recent years have stressed a hands-off approach to such issues, is coordinating the publicity. Support is coming from AT&T, NCTA, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Qwest, Time Warner Cable, MySpace.com parent Fox Interactive Media, Facebook.com, News Corp., domain registrar Network Solutions, BlogSafety.com, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and others. A spokeswoman for USTelecom couldn’t immediately tell us whether the telco trade group was recruited -- as cable peer NCTA seems to have been -- or declined. The Foundation spokeswoman said she didn’t know if USTelecom had been approached, but said “a wide net was cast” for participants, and “anyone who could contribute materials or tools was listed as a participant.” Some entities may have been “turned off” because the group isn’t an “active coalition” and won’t take policy positions, she added. Project Online Safety provides Internet safety tools and educational materials on parental control technologies, reporting cybercrime, cyberbullying and kid-friendly sites. Participants will “devote resources toward distributing and encouraging the broadcast” of public service announcements on Internet safety sponsored by DoJ, NCMEC and the Ad Council, which will run on cable, broadcast and Internet properties. PSAs will run this spring. Participants are conducting “national traveling education programs” and training authorities on dealing with Internet predators -- www.ProjectOnlineSafety.com.