BusinessWeek looks at the flaws in the bill proposed by the House of Representatives that would [a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060512_299340.htm"]block access to social networks and Internet chat rooms[/a] in most federally funded schools and libraries.
One big problem with their bill is it is much too vague, it 'could rule out content from any number of Internet companies, including Yahoo! and Google.' What's more, DOPA would prohibit sites that enable users to create their own content and share it. (Like this one.) That covers a wide swath of the online world, known colloquially as Web 2.0, where users actively create everything from blogs to videos to news-page collections.
