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H.R. 780, The Student Internet Safety Act of 2009 (4 comments ↓ | 6 wiki edits)
H.R. 780 would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to promote the safe use of the Internet by students.
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Josh Taylor
March 23, 2009, 4:30am (report abuse)I support this bill. We need to keep our children away from pornographic sites and other malicious sites that downloads viruses on school computers.
Make the net safe...
Allen Martin
June 16, 2009, 8:08pm (report abuse)I support the leg. Bowling Green City Schools in ky are creating a district int safety plan. Parents,teachers and students all need support.
Dave-65
June 19, 2009, 12:59pm (report abuse)Simple. Make it a law that all soft and hard porn site be removed from the .com and put on a .xxx network. If a site breaks this law and is found on other than the .xxx it will be shut down and the organizers fined. This sounds good but will be nearly impossible to enforce.
Instead update the laws to allow schools to develop a listing of approved sites for their school and only those sites can be accessed from a school computer. The schools would be able to update the listing to include sites if needed for research. I believe the same should be done for libraries. If taxpayers are funding the computers and internet access, then decent rules should be applied. If someone wants to go to porn sites, then let them do it from their home.
By having a safe listing of approved sites you could eliminate access to porn sites and decrease the possibilities of viruses. Initially it would take time to develop this listing, but worth it.
Edi
October 8, 2009, 9:51pm (report abuse)Dave,
I totally agree with your comment. you have some strong ideas that should b incorporate in the school system. I work for Special Ed School as an IT, and for us is hard to balance out the sites we should allow our student to visit.
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