Here’s an interesting article about Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick jumping on a hot issue — in this case, the furor over MySpace. The suggested legislation defines “commercial social networking websites” and “chat rooms,” and as this C|Net article points out, could affect not just MySpace, but a wide range of online services, from AOL to Xbox 360.

But here’s one more piece of language in the bill that ought to be defined: “material that is harmful to minors.” What does that mean, and who makes that determination? I’ve placed two calls to Rep. Fitzpatrick’s offices requesting an answer to that question; should one come, I’ll post it here.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 7:24 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, Social Media.