Jeff Koftinoff, author of one of the first internet filters commented on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227713&cid=18443381

Bennet sends out this story pasted below in increments below about a school board not allowing Al Gores “An Inconvenient Truth” to be shown because of a single complaint from the Creationist thrust. This has made me think of the twelve years I have known Bennet, not personally but through intermittent correspondence and a limited exchange. Bennet probably doesn’t know how much he has contributed to our project so I am writing this to tell him now.

It strikes me that these two stories are going to relate.

How will parental Monitering and Blasphemy inter relate ?

How will the teenagers who will be the next generation going to “play this”?

“Following continuing pressure from politicians (and parts of the media), MySpace is planning to offer parents the chance to download software which will monitor aspects of their children’s activities on the social networking site.

Wired Magazine does an article about Vista. here is the relevant part about Internet Filtering.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,72295-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

 The Stark Report of the trial of ACLU vrs Gonzales was released yesterday.

http://www.turnercom.com/copa-censorware-stark-report.pdf

http://www.turnercom.com/copa-censorware-stark-supp.pdf

http://www.turnercom.com/copa-censorware-stark-supp2.pdf

If you want the background and the lowdown go to Seth Finkelstein's blog.

unbelievable how this ball has been fumbled ... bt

Justice Department refusal to investigate and prosecute Web site customers prompts action. A congressional subcommittee investigating online child pornography has taken bold action -- sending state prosecutors and attorneys general in 46 states the names and credit-card numbers of 1,500 alleged patrons of a child-pornography Web site.

 RAW STORY -Published: Monday August 14, 2006 

A poll conducted by what bills itself as "the world's most visited Christian website" indicates a surprising number of Christians are addicted to pornography, RAW STORY has learned.

"The poll results indicate that 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography," said Clay Jones, founder and President of Second Glance Ministries.

The group defines "addicted" as applied to pornography as use on an ongoing basis.