No Law, Some Order -- Taming The Internet

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

An article on the Law.com web site on ICRA, labelling, filtering and
related issues which is quite interesting.

Cheers
David

No Law, Some Order -- Taming The Internet

Yale's projects to enhance Web's usefulness

Thomas Scheffey
The Connecticut Law Tribune 
January 22, 2001 
 

Constitutional Law professor Jack M. Balkin understands that the
Internet's lack of limits is one of its greatest limitations. 

The director of Yale Law School's Information Society Project knows
that, even in the most enlightened countries, people are deeply
concerned about the chance of exposing their children to explicit
sex, violence or hate groups' sites. Here, law has not been much
help. 

One of the Web's great advantages -- that images and ideas can go
anywhere on the globe, instantly and at virtually no cost -- makes
old-fashioned censorship or import-export regulation almost
inconceivable. Instead, under a grant from the Bertelsmann
Foundation, Yale has helped create a self-rating and filtering tool
that's based on voluntary disclosure of Web site content. 

Under a model program launched Dec. 13, 2000, Web site owners can
fill out a form online (at www.icra.org) that discloses the presence
and degree of sex, violence, promotion of substance abuse and even
"material that might be perceived as setting a bad example for young
children."

See <http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ6MT9K0IC> for the
full article.


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