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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Apr 11, 2007
Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2007 - Prohibits an operator of a commercial website from knowingly placing material that is harmful to minors on the website unless: (1) any page that is initially viewable does not include any such material; (2) access to the material is restricted to a specific set of individuals through an age verification requirement; and (3) the website's source code contains the content description tag assigned to the website by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Requires he NTIA to develop a common content description tag that: (1) will warn and inform consumers regarding the presence of material that is harmful to minors; (2) will allow consumers to block or filter website access; and (3) is technologically capable of being embedded in the website's source code.
Requires a website operator, when registering or re-registering a website, to provide to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers certain information, including the content description tag.
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Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] · D–MT
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in Senate
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