Word: protecters
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...evening ended with Kaminer's perspective onhow to protect children and raise consciousnessabout pornographic material without censorship...
...think it's possible to protectchildren from what's out there," she said. "Thebest way to protect a child is to educate thechild...
...hold your breath. Congress all too often abdicates its duty, passing vexatious policy questions to the bureaucracy and the courts via vaguely worded statues. By doing so, legislators avoid taking stances on controversial issues, which is to say they protect their hides for the next election. The phenomenon is not isolated to sexual harassment: Congress has punted continually on racial preferences, environmental regulation, entitlement reform, etc., ad nauseam...
...Unfortunately, such a reaction, while completely understandable and certainly well intentioned, often overlooks the complexity of the underlying issues which govern labor market conditions in poorer countries. In fact, these bans are counterproductive to the extent that they may harm the very segments of society which they aim to protect: The trouble with a blanket ban on the use of child labor, for example, is that it will never make the problem go away, and may possibly even exacerbate it by shifting the focus away from the issue...
Barlow says the Electronic Frontier 5Foundation works to protect the "free flow ofinformation [and] essential civil liberties" ofall people, while trying to resolve such problemsas protecting children from exposure to offensivematerials, governing intellectual property rights,determining the extent a country's laws havejurisdiction over the intangible world ofCyberspace and retaining freedom of speech "whilestill permitting recovery for harm" on theInternet...