Harvard Scholars Head Up 'Net Safety Task Force
Over the course of the next year, Internet scholars at Harvard University will form a task force to explore how children can avoid unwanted contact and content when surfing the Web. And when we say surfing the Web, we mean spending countless hours on MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites. They're calling it the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (catchy, no?), and it comes after an agreement between MySpace and all state attorneys general (except Texas'!) in January. It will be comprised of of leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and non-profit groups.
MySpace actually created the task force, choosing Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society to run it, but the group will apparently operate independently. Keep in mind, however, that this is the magical world of Rupert Murdoch, where Fox News runs completely independently of News Corp.
And when we say "runs completely independently," of course, we mean "doesn't at all run independently whatsoever, like, not even a little bit."
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