A Flow and Filter

1. Broadcast

• George Carlin’s site (related to Pacifica) (indecent language used)
• Morality in Media
• PureHope (formerly the National Collation for the Protection of Children & Families)
• Parents Television Council :: advisory on Family Guy episode (cache)
• FCC, Enforcement Bureau: Broadcast Issues
• FCC, Policy Statement on Broadcast Indecency (March 2001)
• Fox TV v. FCC (Supreme Court argument page @ SCOTUS wiki) (cache of opinion; cache of oral arguments)
• U.S.C.’s Center for the Digital Future, Violence Reports
• Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (formerly the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center at the CDC)
• public education about the V-chip and TV guidelines

2. Telephony

• FTC, 900 numbers

3. Cable

• PureHope (formerly the National Collation for the Protection of Children & Families)
• Parents Television Council
• Indecency on leased access channels (the subject of a Denver Area). 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

Technology | Context

• Internet Histories @ ISOC
• NSF and the Birth of the Internet [8/18/2008 2:58 PM]
• Video of Internet History 1957-2009 [2/10/2009 9:08 AM]
• 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.
  • Compare the power grid (visualiztion @ NPR) [4/29/2009 8:05 AM]
• 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.
• Wired, Netscapes: Tracing the Jounrey of 1 Bit [11/25/2009 7:40 AM]
• Internet Governance Project [12/5/2008 11:29 AM]
• Simonelis, Concise Guide to Internet Bodies
• ICANN
• NTIA
• ICANNwatch.org
• ISOC (Internet Society)
• Kevin Werbach @ U Penn Wharton
• Joe Liu @ BC Law

Indecency

• Software Filter information
  • PICS main site @ World Wide Web Consortium
  • Internet Content Rating Assoc. (successor to RSAC which has itself shutdown)
    • 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
• American Library Association (ALA) | page on CIPA
• kid.us site examples
  • PBS Kids (cache of screen image)
  • Nickelodeon (cache of screen image; actual site includes SpongeBob bowling game)