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May 5, 1999 President William Jefferson Clinton The White House Washington, DC 20500 The Honorable Trent Lott United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Dennis Hastert United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Vice President Albert Gore The White House Washington, DC 20500 The Honorable Thomas Daschle United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Richard Gephardt United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 We, the undersigned companies, support the efforts of the Administration and Congress to find meaningful solutions to the problem of violence in our society. As members of the Internet community, we stand ready and willing to devote significant energy and resources to doing our share along with government leaders, children’s advocates, community leaders, educators, and families. As you know, numerous tools and vast amounts of information to educate parents and to protect kids from accessing inappropriate material, including violent content, currently exist. Industry, non-profit leaders, and policymakers have been working, through the 1997 Internet Online Summit and the1998 America Links Up campaign, to ensure that these valuable resources are easily available to any parent who wants them. Now we are ready to take the next step. Over the past several months, many of us have been exploring with Members of Congress from both parties and with the Administration the development of a prototype for aggregating, syndicating and providing these resources so that they will be easy to find by any consumer, from any access point on the Internet. Ensuring that kids’ safety tools and good content are within easy reach — "one click away" — for every parent, child, teenager and concerned user on the Internet is an important goal. We want to assure all Americans that we are strongly committed to launching just such a resource by July 1999, and to ensuring the broadest and most effective distribution possible. This "one click away" resource will include:
When fully implemented, more than 95 percent of Internet users will find these resources truly "one click away" as a result of the breadth of companies committed to this effort. We look forward to working with the Administration, Congressional leaders, non-profit community leaders, and other industry representatives to ensure that these resources are "one click away" for American families. Sincerely, America Online AT&T @Home Network Bell Atlantic Commercial Internet eXchange Disney Online Excite, Inc Lycos, Inc. MCI WorldCom Microsoft Corporation MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Netscape Communications Network Solutions Inc. Prodigy Communications Corporation Yahoo! Inc. cc: Members of the U.S. Senate Members of the House of Representatives |
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