Girls who visit the virtual role models on the Web site can learn more about the careers they find there by visiting the project's online bookstore. Late last year, a teenage cyber-rights activist ignited what subsequently became an ongoing controversy over filtering software marketed to parents, libraries, and schools as a way to block children's access to sexually explicit sites. Haselton posted his findings about the filter software on Peacefire , an Internet-based organization founded in August 1996 to represent students' and minors' interests in the debate over freedom of speech on the Internet. Solid Oak's threat generated an outpouring of support for Peacefire from Internet activists concerned about free speech. Most of the organization's approximately 1,700 members are between ages 13 and 17.
Adults can join as associate members.
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