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December 29th, 2006

Whew! U.S. ayatollahs fail to block valuable tools for K-12—social sites and chat rooms

By David Rothman

MoliereLook, schools and libraries should discourage kids from visiting sex sites and chatting with perverts. But the Deleting Online Predators Act overdid it, and parents, teachers and children can be thankful that the proposed law died. Andy Carvin has the details.

Among the friends of DOPA-style legislation: Mark Foley, the sleazy ex-congressman who seduced young Congressional pages in between his pious utterances. Moliere, Moliere, you should be alive today in the United States to give certain politicians the writeups they deserve (painting).

Thought: DOPA also might have harmed the cause of interactive books.

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