Content Ratings for the Web? Legislating a "Sexually Explicit" Label for Web Sites
September 15, 2006
Overview | Panelist Biographies | One-Pagers | Video/Audio | Photos
Should Congress require U.S. Web sites to display a government rating label for pages that include "sexually-explicit" material? Several bills are moving through Congress that would create a government warning label for such content. Panelists debated the impact of this proposal.
The panel was moderated by Tim Lordan, Internet Education Foundation/Internet Caucus Advisory Committee. The panelists included: Stephen Balkam, Internet Content Rating Association, Larry Rothenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, and Leslie Harris, Center for Democracy & Technology.
This event was part of a three part panel series titled Legislating Online Child Safety. This briefing series is hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee on legislative proposals to protect children while online. Policymakers have put forward several proposals to mandate online safety and security for children and teens. This three-part panel discussion series will unpack the major legislative proposals and examine them in depth.
For this series, members have submitted one pagers on their perspectives with respect online child safety. This briefing book is available at http://www.netcaucus.org/books/childsafety2006/.