The following are links to sites regarding the Munich Internet Content Summit in Sept 1999.
In a paper presented at the Internet Content Summit, the Bertelsmann Foundation called for greater user control over content regulation. The paper recommended user implementation of rating, filtering and security technology for content regulation, and that international hotlines and "credible self-regulatory institutions" be created to resolve user complaints. The foundation stated its belief that freedom of speech and child protection online go hand in hand. What is needed, it said, is "a new culture of responsibility."
Bertelsmann Foundation’s Internet Content Summit site:http://www.stiftung.bertelsmann.de/internetcontent
Filtering the Internet: A Best Practices Model Jack Balkin: http://www.law.yale.edu/infosociety/filtering.html
See also Plan Calls for Self-Policing of the Internet <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/20rate.html> and Yale Law Professor Is Main Architect of Global Filtering Plan <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html>(New York Times (registration required)),
Who Polices the Net? (IDG)<http://www.pcworld.com/shared/printable_articles/0,1440,12745,00.html >
Internet Ratings Redux (Wired), <http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21652.html >
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) Press Release, <http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-munich.html >
Queasy About Online Ratings(Newsbytes), <http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/10/news6.html >
Net censorship: An impossible task?(IDG), <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1999/0910censor.html >
Self-Rating Of Sites Assailed (The Washington Post), <http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/15/news11.html >
Munich, The Censors’ Convention <http://slashdot.org/yro/99/09/11/1346226.shtml >
<http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/5277/1.html>Großindustrie und Politik wollen mit unliebsamen Inhalten im Internet aufräumen (Heise Online).http://www.internetnews.com/intl-news/print/0,1089,6_198751,00.html
Summit queries Net content law:http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/14/bizcom/bizcom3.html
EPIC Filters and Freedom web page:http://www.epic.org/filters&freedom
EFA - International Statement Warns Against Censorship:http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/PR990909.html
International Net ratings plan under fire:http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-346859.html
Magaziner on Net Censorship: Why Bother?:http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,6284,00.html?home.bf
Parents fail to nanny children snared in the Net (not related to summit): http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/09/text/national20.html
Last revised: 29 March 2000