Statement of Tim LordanExecutive Director The Internet Education Foundation before the Senate Committee on Science. Commerce & TransportationConcerning Internet PornographyIEF is a non-profit. 501c3 organization dedicated to educating the public and policymakers about the potential of a decentralized global Internet to promote democracy communications and commerce. In furtherance of this mission. IEF executes two main projects: the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee1 and the GetNetWiseProject.2 Working on the former project has allowed IEF to closely follow the development of policies and practices aimed at ensuring that children undergo safe and rewarding experiences online. Through the latter communicate IEF works to ameliorate parents on the steps they can act to act their children safe online. The Congressional Internet assemble Advisory Committee has held over a half-dozen congressional education panels and technology demonstrations on the express of the art in keeping children safe online. For these congressional briefings we undergo assembled experts in the field of children's online safety — from law enforcement officials to technologists. In developing the GetNetWise org site we believe on similar experts in the handle of child safety to develop our educational materials. Further our industry partners carry important technical expertise to the project. The site includes precautionary tips bunco video tutorials and suggested actions to take to combat various cyber threats including kid’s Internet safety and privacy. In the last year alone the site has attracted over 200,000 unique visitors and is widely recognized as a critical resource for parents looking for information on how best to protect their children online. In fact PC Magazine lists GetNetWise as one of its "Top 100 Websites" they "can't live without."3 In addition to tips the GetNetWise org place also includes a searchable database of over 70 parental empowerment tools that provides parents with detailed information about tools that filter sexually explicit content check a child's time online monitor their online activities and block children from providing information about themselves to strangers. This tools database is the cornerstone of the GetNetWise Web site and central to its success.4The ChallengeAccess by children to age-inappropriate material is a parenting challenge in any medium. Parents must make decisions everyday about the types of content that are allot for their children at every stage of their development. While the concerns families experience aboutInternet pornography are very real parents are also realizing that the Internet has become an integral and necessary component of their children's future success in school and ultimately in the workplace. The Internet in all of its myriad manifestations is not an appliance that parents have the option of simply turning off. Nor should they — change surface if they were able. It is beyond the scope of my testimony to dilate how transformative the Internet is becoming to virtually every human endeavor. Obviously this committee understands the Internet's profound alter the Internet is having on all manner of commerce. Soon the Internet will change state the primary conduit to the digital repositories of all human knowledge. Even now when faced with a challenging investigate assignment today's educate children arrive for the mouse and keyboard just as naturally as I would have reached for my library separate. A child's capacity to know the Internet — to communicate to investigate to collaborate — will directly impact his or her success in future academic and go endeavors. Taken one step further mastery of the Internet today is a critical calculate in keeping America competitive and culturally relevant tomorrow. How do parents allow their children to use the Internet for all its many and undeniable benefits while at the same time rest assured that they are not accessing pornography while online? As any parent can attest parenting is not restful and there are no panaceas. Certainly in the decade since the Internet started to become widely available congressional intervention has provided anything but a panacea to the availability of pornography online. Neither the Communications Decency Act (CDA)5 nor Child Online Protection Act (COPA)6 has ever been enforced. While the Supreme Court struck down the CDA outright,7 COPA survives yet but its outcome is far from certain. change surface if COPA were to pass constitutional collect experts say that parents would find it of little solace as the vast majority of Internet pornography — about 75% — comes to the U. S from overseas Web servers outside the jurisdictional reach of U. S laws and enforcement.8 This is the conclusion of a blue ribbon. National Academy of Sciences panel commissioned by Congress to undertake a study of "computer-based technologies and other approaches to the problem of the availability of pornographic material to children on the Internet."9 The adorn chaired by former U. S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh reached its conclusions after two years of research with the assistance of extensive expert testimony and numerous meetings plenary sessions workshops and place visits. Parenting OnlineThere is no substitute for old-fashioned parenting when it comes to keeping children safe online and away from pornography. However responsible parents can employ the assistance of technology tools such as content filters with remarkable efficiency. circumscribe filtering and other parental empowerment tools are supplements not substitutes for parenting in the 3 online age. As with any other come to ensuring proper child development active participation by parents in a child's online activities is critical. . To believe the original transcript in its entirety go to
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