How to hinder, not help, social networks

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

How to hinder, not help, social networks

Joe offers Perspective on how government's steps to keep social networking safe for minors may backfire. It's the difference between throwing around the "right" words or taking the right actions (as MySpace has tried to do).

It's time for government to take a good hard look at the (perhaps unintended) long-term harm it may be doing to American digital innovators and entrepreneurs.

The United States needs sound policy--not petty politics--to maintain and strengthen our position as the world's technology leader. We need cooperation between Internet firms, government, parents, and informed kids to protect against online predators. And, we need to fully embrace technology as the way to better address potential problems, rather than laws targeting innocent Web users and companies.

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