Posts Tagged with ‘E-Stop’

I never seem to run out of material for one of my favorite topics: keeping children safe online. We've had New York's E-Stop legislation, and the equally useless MySpace agreement with most of the states' attorneys general. Next up? An Internet Safety Technical Task Force to “focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies” for keeping children and teens safe online. The task force has real teeth here, tasked with preparing quarterly reports as well as a final report [...]

It wasn't enough to just go along with the useless MySpace “agreement,” New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo joined forces with State Sen. Joseph Bruno and State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver in announcing the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop… isn't that CUTE?), which is a new bill that promises to prevent sex offenders from accessing social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
Without getting into the nitty gritty of the bill, it proposes to do this by (wait [...]