Parents have real concerns and the industry is responding.
We are trying to come up with solutions that are wholly consistent with the civil libertarian ethos of the Net and this country's tradition of free speech. We think the Exon bill is exactly the wrong approach. It imposes severe penalties on distributors of sexually explicit material on the Internet. Critics say it is overly broad and possibly unconstitutional. The House passed the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act, which calls for industry to set standards and develop software for filtering content.