Voices against DOPA

Posted on | August 8, 2006 | Comments Off

Anne Davis, in her award-winning edublog, Edublog Insights, publishes the text of a letter to a US Senator protesting about the Deleting Online Predators Act. To quote just an excerpt from this long letter:

” I cannot believe that this bill is even on the table. It would take away our responsibility to teach our students how they can stay safe and learn responsible internet use with all the amazing social networking tools that are now available. You don”t educate by banning, you educate by teaching and there are some outstanding uses made of this technology already currently on the web.”

But don’t make do with this excerpt – read the whole thing!

On the DOPA petition, I noticed that when you try to sign it, it offers a compulsory drop-down list of US states, making it difficult for non-US citizens to sign. I asked saveyourspace.org to add a ‘non-US’ category and got a prompt reply from Carlos Tabora to say, “I think we can incorporate that somehow.” So – watch that space!