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Nancy, I couldn't agree more with you that the federal government should not be raising awareness about "cybercrime," much less trying to regulate Internet-delivered educational content, if that will be the outcome of the legislation. That way lies censorship and top-down control. So in terms of political outcomes, I suspect we are on the same page. But personally, the message conveyed in your post's title, "Operation Delete Internet Fear," quite honestly would alienate even me. Speaking as a father of a little boy, organizer of http://www.watchknow.org/ and an even newer educational project in planning stages, and co-founder of Wikipedia, I think there is a lot indeed to fear, or at least to avoid, online. Again, we might agree on the means to avoid it. But I spend all day long online, and have done so for years, and the amount of smut and outright crime online, to say nothing of other bad influences of all sorts, is disturbing. I agree that the government has no business in "raising awareness" of this problem, in my opinion--for regular Internet users, you might as well raise awareness of the air we breathe--but conveying the stance that there is no significant problem to begin with looks like a puzzling denial of reality. ----- Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. | http://www.larrysanger.org/ Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium | http://www.citizendium.org/ Executive Director, WatchKnow | http://www.watchknow.org/ sanger@citizendium.org --- Edtech Archives, posting guidelines and other information are at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb Please include your name, email address, and school or professional affiliation in each posting. To unsubscribe send the following command to: LISTSERV@H-NET.MSU.EDU SIGNOFF EDTECH
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