Controlling Online Pornography: Options for Parents and Families. Panelists May 23, 2002
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Jerry Berman
Jerry Berman chairs the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus. He founded IEF in 1997 to help support the efforts of the Caucus Advisory Committee in educating Congress about the Internet and related policy issues.
Mr. Berman is also co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). He coordinates CDT's free speech and privacy policy working groups comprised of communications firms, associations and civil liberties groups addressing Internet policy issues. Mr. Berman coordinated the sucessful Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition challenge to the Communications Decency Act. Mr. Berman has led legislative efforts to enact such landmark legislation as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
Prior to founding CDT, Mr. Berman was a Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mr. Berman was also Chief Legislative Counsel at the ACLU from 1978-1988 and founder and director of ACLU Projects on Privacy and Information Technology.
Mr. Berman received his BA, MA, and LLB at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated with honors, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and served as an editor of the California Law Review at Boalt Law School.
Donna Rice Hughes
Mrs. Hughes is the author of Kids Online: Protecting Your Children In Cyberspace. (Revell, September 1998) which has been translated into both Spanish and Korean. Additionally, she has her own Internet safety website at www.protectkids.com.
From 1999-2001, Mrs. Hughes served as spokesperson and senior advisor to FamilyClick.com, a state-of-the-art Internet Filtering Service. In 1999, Mrs. Hughes received a Congressional appointment to the Child Online Protection Commission (COPA) to examine technological solutions to protect children online and served as co-chair of the COPA Hearings in July 2000 on filtering/ratings/labeling technologies.
She is frequently sought out by the media, policy makers, law enforcement officials and industry leaders for her expertise on solutions for ensuring that children have a safe and rewarding experience online. Donna has given over 2000 media interviews and has been a featured guest on numerous television shows including Crossfire, Dateline, The Today Show, Oprah and The View. Additionally, her views on this issue have been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News and People Magazine. Additionally, she has authored numerous articles and editorials that have been published in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, McCalls Magazine and MSNBC.com. Mrs. Hughes co-wrote the story for the season finale episode of Touched By An Angel which brought the message of Internet dangers and online safety to prime time television and won the Nielson ratings for it's time slot during May sweeps.
She has spoken extensively on the subject in educational and professional forums across the country including Johns Hopkins University, MIT, American University, The Freedom Forum and The National Press Club. She has testified before the United States Congress, both House and Senate, on the issues surrounding Internet dangers and safety solutions.
From 1994 until July of 1999, Mrs. Hughes served as Communications Director and then Vice President of Enough Is Enough, a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to make the Internet safe for children and families (www.enough.org). Mrs. Hughes led Enough Is Enough's efforts regarding the issue of online child safety and played a pioneering role in the national effort to make the Internet safe for children and families. While at Enough Is Enough, Mrs. Hughes developed a three-pronged strategy that involves the public, the technology industry and law enforcement sharing the responsibility to protect children on the Internet. This approach has been adopted by many industry and government leaders.
Mrs. Hughes served on the steering committee for the Internet Online Summit: Focus on Children in December of 1997. She proposed and led the Summit's adoption of an industry "ZERO Tolerance" policy against child pornography, which was endorsed by the White House and the Justice Department. She later served on the executive committee for the Summit's public awareness campaign, America Links Up, and currently serves on the advisory board for the Get Net Wise initiative.
Mrs. Hughes received a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of South Carolina and graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She is the Founder and Principal of DRH Enterprises, LLC.
Donna and her husband, Jack, live in Northern Virginia.
Larry Magid
A syndicated technology columnist for nearly two decades, Larry Magid's columns have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CNN.COM, AOL and numerous other newspapers and websites throughout the world. Magid also writes a Family Technology column for the San Jose Mercury News and serves as on air Technology Analyst for CBS News. His technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS Network and CBS affiliates throughout the United States.
In addition to his work for CBS network, Larry's technology commentaries can be heard daily on both KNX (CBS Los Angeles) and KCBS in San Francisco.
He is a regular pundit on TechTV's Silicon Spin program and is a commentator for Public Radio International's Sound Money program. In the United Kingdom he can be heard on CapitalFM's "Breakfast Club," -- London's most popular morning drive time radio show . Larry has made repeat appearances on The Larry King Show, CBS This Morning, NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, NPR's All Things Considered and many other programs.
He has written for Fortune, ForbesASAP, Family Circle, PC World, PC Magazine, Upside, Information Week, Modern Maturity, ComputerWorld, Washington Post and numerous other publications.
He is the author of several books including The Little PC Book (now in its 4th edition), a critically acclaimed best seller, The Little Quicken Book, Cruising Online: Larry Magid's Guide to the New Digital Highways (Random House, 1994), The Fully Powered PC (Simon and Schuster, 1984) and "Electronic Link: Using the IBM PC to Communicate" (John Wiley and Sons, 1983). He is also the host of three popular web sites :PCAnswer.com, SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com.
Larry served as editor during the early days at PC magazine and was co-founder of Know How, one of the nation's first computer training companies. He has served as a commentator for CNN's Computer Connection and as on air analyst and Managing Editor of The Computer Show, a syndicated television program.
Larry is on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and is the recipient of that organization's "Ten Year Anniversary Award" for his work in developing a system for finding missing children via online services. Time magazine (November 1, 1993) called Magid and his colleagues "high tech heroes" for that work. Magid's web sites, SafeKids.Com and SafeTeens.Com were selected as Laureates in the prestigious 1999 Computerworld/Smithonian award.
Magid is the author of Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, free booklets from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that have helped millions of families understand how to safely navigate cyberspace. He is also author of the safety guide on the GetNetWise.Org child safety web site.
In an earlier life he was editor/publisher of EdCentric, a leading international journal of educational reform and served as director of the National Student Association's Center for Educational Reform.
Larry doesn't play a doctor on TV but he does have a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor's degree from University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts and the Boston University School of Communications.
Robin Raskin
Robin Raskin is a technology consultant with Ziff Davis Media specializing in consumer technologies. She is regarded as one of the leading authorities on today's family and how they cope (or not) with technology.
The former Editor in Chief and founder of FamilyPC, Raskin has been writing, lecturing and consulting in the consumer technology arena for the past twenty years. Prior to launching FamilyPC, Raskin was the Editor of PC Magazine.
As a freelance writer her work appeared in such magazines as PC World, PC Week, InfoWorld, Working Mother, Working Woman, Child and Newsday. Raskin has authored 6 books about parenting in the digital ages and is a frequent guest on many of the morning news shows. Raskin writes a syndicated column for USAToday.com and for the Gannett News Services, which appears in more than 150 newspapers around the country and is also the on-air host for a "connected family" TV broadcast that is distributed nationally, reaching 4-6 million viewers monthly.
Raskin resides in New York City and Hudson Valley with her husband, three children, and a pile of ever-changing computer equipment.