Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.

elearning 2.0 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."

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Destroying Terroristic Buzzwords Act

[Anonymous Coward]

e-learning 2.0 space

In any just society, whoever wrote that would swing next to Saddam, Idi Amin, and the guy who invented clamshell packaging.