http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/04/01/what-ifs-conference/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/04/01/what-ifs-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-6722 Info/Law » Sandwich Meat, or How Not To Protect Kids From Porn Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:03:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/04/01/what-ifs-conference/#comment-6722 [...] At a conference (see Bill’s post) at Michigan State (run by the indefatigable, immensely connected Peter Yu), I came across a proposal to help Internet users avoid porn. Intrigued, after years spent working with the ONI on filtering issues, I gave the Web site (at cp80.org) a read. The purported solution incorporates both legal and technical elements. My analysis: it’s not only a terrible idea, but it won’t work on either front. I’ll go through the problem statement, the technological proposal, and the legal proposal, then give my own thoughts. [...] [...] At a conference (see Bill’s post) at Michigan State (run by the indefatigable, immensely connected Peter Yu), I came across a proposal to help Internet users avoid porn. Intrigued, after years spent working with the ONI on filtering issues, I gave the Web site (at cp80.org) a read. The purported solution incorporates both legal and technical elements. My analysis: it’s not only a terrible idea, but it won’t work on either front. I’ll go through the problem statement, the technological proposal, and the legal proposal, then give my own thoughts. [...]

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