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Congress, White House Agree on Internet Child-Protection MeasuresIn its final days before adjournment, Congress and the White House agreed on a proposal designed to protect children from online indecency and privacy incursions. The Child Online Protection Act, which would make commercial Web sites require proof of age before allowing viewing of material considered "harmful to minors," was passed by the House October 7. As Congress wound to a close in mid-October, legislators added the House measure to a massive $500-billion spending bill October 15 in order to get identical wording through both houses. Although the Justice Department had expressed reservations about the House bill's constitutionality, President Clinton's negotiators backed down in the face of the Republicans' strong support for the legislation, Reuters reported October 16. Civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have announced that they will sue to block the law. |
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