{"id":1529,"date":"2007-11-21T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2007-11-21T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T20:59:55","slug":"carlsbads-i-safe-in-line-for-25-million-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s i-Safe In Line For $25 Million Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-4134\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 4134<\/a><\/strong>, which was passed by the House of Representatives last week, earmarks $25 million in funding directly to the Carlsbad-based non-profit online safety organization <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isafe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">i-Safe<\/a><\/strong> to &#8220;carry out Internet crime prevention education programs.&#8221;  It has yet to pass the Senate, however, not everyone is happy about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are a number of organizations in this space and it makes no sense for Congress to single out one organization,&#8221; <strong>Larry Magid<\/strong>, co-director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectsafely.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ConnectSafely.org<\/a><\/strong>, a nonprofit Internet safety organization, wrote in an e-mail. &#8220;I would prefer specific funding to be handled by a federal agency rather than Congress, which really isn&#8217;t in a position to evaluate effectiveness or appropriate messages.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <strong><em>National Journal<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Nancy Willard<\/strong>, executive director of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberbully.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use<\/a><\/strong>, says this would be a waste of public funding because iSafe offers a:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Web 1.0-style Internet safety education &#8212; fear-based, simplistic rules with a &#8216;just say no&#8217; approach that is doomed to failure with today&#8217;s totally wired kids and teens.&#8221; Investing so much in one group would eliminate benefits derived from competition and diversity, undermine collaboration, and stifle innovation, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/techdailydose.nationaljournal.com\/2007\/11\/bills_passage_divides_childsaf.php\" target=\"_blank\">National Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9821416-7.html%3Ftag%3Dnefd.top\" target=\"_blank\">CNET<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill H.R. 4134, which was passed by the House of Representatives last week, earmarks $25 million in funding directly to the Carlsbad-based non-profit online safety organization i-Safe to &#8220;carry out Internet crime prevention education programs.&#8221; It has yet to pass the Senate, however, not everyone is happy about it. There are a number of organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,10,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}