Over at ZDNet's "Social Web" blog, Steve O'Hear writes:
It looks like the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) has died a slow death. DOPA was proposed during the height of last year's moral panic around the issue of child safety and sites like MySpace. The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding – therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space.
But much damage the new law would have brought has already happened, he says — many schools now block social networking sites, anyway. Read the full post here: Link (via /.)
