CDT Urges Focus on User Empowerment to Protect Kids Online - Leslie Harris, CDT's Senior Consultant and incoming Executive Director, testified before a congressional panel about the need to focus on user empowerment in the ongoing effort to protect kids from viewing inappropriate material online. At a Senate subcommittee hearing titled 'Protecting Children and Families in the Age of Convergence,' Harris pointed to the findings of two panels charged by Congress with addressing the issue. Both found that filtering technologies and other user empowerment tools provide the most effective means to limit the types of content that children are exposed to online. November 10, 2005

• CDT Testimony [PDF] November 10, 2005
• GetNetWise - User Empowerment Site November 10, 2005 [off-site]
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