WASHINGTON — A bill that could resurrect the Deleting Online Predators Act, which sought to limit access to blog and social networking sites in an effort to thwart online predators, may now have a second life with the introduction of legislation in the Senate dubbed “DOPA Jr.”
In July, the House overwhelmingly and quickly passed DOPA in response to a public outcry about predators using sites such as Friendster and MySpace to find children online. But the bill died a slow death in the Senate while civil libertarians, technical pundits and other online free speech advocates highlighted the bill’s far-reaching implications for Internet media and communications.
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