DOPA: onomatopoeia or necessary protection?
anyone care to comment on the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (DOPA)? this bill passed the house of representatives, but stalled in the senate before session ended, forcing a reproposal next session. i ran across a detailed reposted july 2006 discussion of DOPA at Vicki A. Davis's Cool Cat Teacher Blog. i particularly enjoyed one of the comments in which it was noted that many of the students who are the apparent targets of "protection" know more about how to protect themselves from malicious online activity than those designing this clumsy legislation. maybe we can help our lawmakers feel this one out. can we afford to block students (and teachers while at school) from using online networking and idea exchange tools? how might we decrease students' exposure to malicious activity without eliminating their ability to use the online tools available to learn and interact with their peers and the rest of the world?
1 comment:
Evan, I hope the government does not prevent students from communicating over the internet. It seems like a really good tool for discussion and to interact with others that they would not get the chance to otherwise.
Greg
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