A Flow and Filter

1. Broadcast

• George Carlin’s site (related to Pacifica) (indecent language used)
• Morality in Media
• National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families
• Parents Television Council
• FCC, Enforcement Bureau: Broadcast Issues
• FCC, Policy Statement on Broadcast Indecency (March 2001)
• Specific example of an indecency complaint
• viewer complaint
• Enforcement Bureau response
• Commissioner Tristani’s reaction
• Fox TV v. FCC (Supreme Court argument page @ SCOTUS wiki)
  
• U.S.C.’s Center for the Digital Future, Violence Reports
• Media violence reports @ National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
• public education about the V-chip and TV guidelines

2. Telephony

• FTC, 900 numbers

3. Cable

• National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families
• Parents Television Council
• The Denver case talks about indecency on leased access channels. Here are some examples from the Seattle area:
• GoddessKRING (warning nudity, although not prurient)
• Mike Aivaz runs “The Mike Hunt Show”, which airs pornography at 1 am on Thursdays (see Seattle Times article)

4. The Internet

a. Industry Introduction

• Internet Histories @ ISOC
• NSF and the Birth of the Internet [8/18/2008 2:58 PM]
  
• A great global and national visualization of the Internet’s backbone. I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but it’s very useful for getting the big picture.
• Zuckerman & McLaughlin, Intro to Internet Architecture and Institutions (2003) (excellent and detailed descriptions)
  
• Accessible, brief articles about how different aspects of the Internet function. Highly recommended from Howstuffworks.com.

• Internet Governance Project   [12/5/2008 11:29 AM]
  

• Simonelis, Concise Guide to Internet Bodies[1]
• ICANN
• NTIA
• ICANNwatch.org
• ISOC (Internet Society)
  
• Kevin Werbach @ U Penn Wharton
• Joe Liu @ BC Law

b. Indecency

• Software Filter information
• PICS main site @ World Wide Web Consortium
• Internet Content Rating Assoc. (successor to RSAC)
• ICRAplus (has changed its model to go beyond self-labelling, as of summer 2005)
• SafeSurf rating system @ SafeSurf
• Article on Internet ratings by Prof. Jonathan Weinberg
• Generalization of “filter” issue to automatic selection based on metadata
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) @ W3C
• R. Polk Wagner @ U Penn Law
• American Library Association (ALA) | page on CIPA

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