Word: summits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kept no smut in the house, at least that I ever found, but a good friend's dad had quite the cache of Playboys, as well as a couple of "naturist" magazines. That's how life was lived in those days, and nobody had to convene a three-day summit meeting in Washington to worry about...
...ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
Organized by the online industry with prodding from the White House, the summit managed to draw an impressive and diverse array of pressure groups into its tent, as well as Al Gore, Janet Reno (both originally scheduled to speak on the day she was to announce whether he would be saddled with an independent prosecutor, much to the press's interest), sundry lesser Cabinet members, Congresspeople, lobbyists, academics and law-enforcement officials. All were united by a single goal: a genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks...
...Internet into a genuine mass medium and make a real pile of money is to convince the public that it is a clean and well-lighted place. The industry's mantra has been "Patience! Technological refinements will soon be able to protect everyone's interests." This is why the summit opened with demos of various programs that can block out unwanted Websites and E-mail or provide parents with a log of what their kid has been doing on the computer. "This has sometimes seemed more like a trade show than a summit," complained Barry Steinhardt of the A.C.L.U...
Away from the microphones, one of the summit's more prominent voices gave it a slightly more cynical spin: Now Congressman So-and-So can go to the Christian Coalition and talk technology, technology, technology. Not that there aren't still a few bugs. Many of the software programs block out innocuous Websites as well as toxic ones; others are cumbersome or do unpleasant things to your computer's operating system. Many in the online industry are touting a new "platform for Internet content selection" (PICS) system that is a kind of V chip for the Internet. But as participants...