[NYCInfoLaw] Reading Group: This Tuesday, 6.30pm Jerome Greene Hall, Rm 701, Columbia University

[Kate Vershov]

Hey everyone!

Given the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear the government's appeal of
a July 2008 ruling holding the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA)
unconstitutional, perhaps this is an appropriate time to examine the issue
of online safety and the appropriate tools for achieving it.


For a brief summary of COPA's history:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/copa
The statute can be found at:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/usc_sec_47_00000231----000-.html

Then, please read the executive summary of the Final Report of the Internet
Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social
Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/ISTTF_Final_Report-Executive_Summary.pdf

Theories of "moral panic" may be an interesting take on COPA:
http://techliberation.com/2009/01/23/video-games-and-moral-panic/


The reading group will be held at 6:30pm at Columbia University, Jerome
Green Hall, 435 West 116th St., Room 701. Dinner will be served. Each
reading is rather short and skimming is cool.

-Kate
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