| Study | Fed $? | Description | Date Expected |
|---|---|---|---|
Media Institute | No | Study of industry responses to online content concerns, requested by Chairman Bliley. Specifically examining Internet industry and non-profit organization efforts in (1) Consumer Education, (2) Law Enforcement, and (3) Technology, designed to help protect children from exposure to inappropriate sexually explicit or violent material online. | October 1999 (PUBLISHED) |
Yes | "Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content" Public Law 105-314 (Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998) Title IX, Section 901, mandated that "not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall request that the National Academy of Sciences, acting through its National Research Council, enter into a contract to conduct a study of computer-based technologies and other approaches to the problem of the availability of pornographic material to children on the Internet, in order to develop possible amendments to Federal criminal law and other law enforcement techniques to respond to the problem." . | Active Fall 1999; report in early 2001. | |
Yes | The Commission shall conduct a study to identify technological or other methods that will help reduce access by minors to material that is harmful to minors on the Internet. The Commission shall identify and analyze various technological tools and methods for protecting minors from material that is harmful to minors,including: a common resource for parents to use to help protect minors (such as a "one-click-away" resource); filtering or blocking software or services; labeling or rating systems; age verification systems; the establishment of a domain name for posting of any material that is harmful to minors. The Commission shall examine cost, the effects on law enforcement entities; effects on privacy; extent to which material that is harmful to minors is globally distributed, effect of technology on such distribution; and accessibility of such technologies and methods to parents. | Deadline Extended to October 21, 2000 Appointments completed Oct 19, 1999 PUBLISHED, October 20, 2000 | |
Executive Order 13133: Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet | Yes | Interagency task force to examine:
| For 120 days beginning on August 6, 1999 (ends 12/2/1999) |
Bertelsmann Foundation | No | Proposed international mechanism for labeling and ISP regulation of content. | Fall 1999 and ongoing. |
Federal Trade Commission | Yes | Regulations implementing COPPA, with impact on speech. | Fall 1999 -RELEASED |
Federal Election Commission | Yes | Rules for online political activity and election law. | Fall 1999 and ongoing. |
JJ Bill (Senate Language) | Yes | Study of marketing practices of motion picture, recording, and video/personal computer game industries. | One year after enactment |
JJ Bill (House Language) | Yes | The Surgeon General... shall undertake a comprehensive review of published research, analysis, studies, and other sources of reliable information concerning the impact on the health and welfare of children and young adults of violent messages delivered through such popular media as television, radio, recordings, video games, advertising, the Internet, and other outlets of mass culture. | One year for the review, and six more months for the report. |
FTC Violence Study | Yes | ??? | ??? |
Congressional Youth Violence Task Force | Yes | Task Force of 24 Congressmen, chaired by Reps. Dunn and Frost, broadly examining issues of youth violence in society, including effect of online media. Has been briefed on GetNetWise. | May issue report within a year. |