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US Aims To Ban Networking Sites
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Portal IT News
Portal IT News  
By Portal IT News
Published on August 1, 2006
 
Deleting Online Predators Act already passed in Congress. Should it also pass through the Senate, the bill would ban US children from using popular networking Web sites in schools and libraries.

The DOPA covers federal institutions that received funding for computers and net access via the US E-Rate scheme. According to the American Library Association (ALA), two thirds of US libraries have received this funding.


Stop children from accessing social networking sites

As it follows, such institutions would have to install filters that would stop children from accessing social networking sites where they might be subject to "unlawful sexual advances".

Many US schools have already taken similar measures and banned the sites.

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