URGENT Action Needed regarding DOPA
Teens visit the library to get in touch with friends and catch up with the latest social news via the intarweb. They use web sites such as MySpace to message each other. But if DOPA goes into effect, only youth with home computers will be able to use MySpace and other social web sites, per the DOPA legislation. Please help prevent the digital divide from getting even larger! Do your part to prevent DOPA from being passed!
_______________________________________
From: Beth Yoke
Date: Jul 25, 2006 4:31 PM
Subject: [YA-YAAC:5830] URGENT Action Needed regarding DOPA
To: ya-yaac@ala.org, yalsa-bk@ala.org, yalsa-l@ala.org, pubyac@lists.prairienet.org, LM_NET@listserv.syr.edu, nexgenlib-l@topica.com
URGENT Action Needed: The ALA Washington Office has learned that the US
House of Representatives may try to expedite passage of H.R. 5319, the
Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), TOMORROW, July 26th. The bill is
moving forward as is, with no changes to the original language.
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE’S OFFICE TODAY and ask that he/she
oppose HR 5319. The Capitol Switchboard number is: 202-224-3121.
To find out who your Representative in the House is, go here:
http://www.house.gov/zip/ZIP2Rep.html
To learn more about DOPA, please go here:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2006ndx/073jul25.htm
Thank you for your efforts to ensure that all library users will
continue to have access to critical Internet resources via library and
school computers!
Feedburner Rss