Adam Thierer reflects on the future of content controls:

[T]he combined effect of [the above] factors will be, in my opinion, the gradual undermining of traditional efforts by governments to control media content. If my thesis is correct then the next question a lot of people (especially parents) will ask is: OK, now what?! After all, it's not just that policymakers will expect private industry and organizations to step up to the place and take steps to protect children if they can't, it's also parents themselves. Indeed, as a parent of two children myself, I find myself facing the some real challenges in dealing with our wonderful new world of media abundance and convergence.

What sort of private rules, tools or systems can we put in place to help parents as traditional government content restrictions wither away? This was the focus of the [Internet Content Rating Association] roundtable discussion in California this week.

posted by James DeLong @ 8:58 AM | Liberty and IP

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