IPI Applauds Creation of MySpace, Attorneys General Internet Safety Task Force

DALLAS, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Social networking site MySpace.com
announced yesterday a joint effort with 49 state attorneys general to step up
efforts to protect children online.

Among the many proposed new safety measures includes the creation of an
Internet Safety Technical Task Force to study online safety tools and
development of technology to verify users' age and identity.

The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a national free market public
policy organization, applauds the expanded efforts to protect youngsters
online and the creation of the task force.

Bartlett Cleland, Director of the Center for Technology Freedom said in a
statement, "The Attorneys General have shown the better part of valor, and
MySpace the goodwill and integrity, by supporting and creating a Taskforce to
identify appropriate tools that can protect children."

"This, in addition to the establishment of key principles are fundamental in
allowing for marketplace solutions and parental guidance, not only for MySpace
and the social networking industry, but also for any interface that includes
children," said Cleland.

Cleland has spent nearly a decade working towards empowering parents with real
tools and real solutions for protecting their children through his membership
on the board of the Internet Education Foundation and its website
GetNetWise.org.

The IPI Center for Technology Freedom champions technological innovation as a
means to stimulate increased economic growth, to promote U.S. international
competitiveness and to improve society. The Center also helps policy makers
and the American people figure out how to think about the issues raised by
technological change and advocate a regime that encourages the freedom to
develop and access beneficial new technologies.

The Institute for Policy Innovation is a national, non-profit public policy
organization based in Dallas, TX. IPI experts are available for interview by
contacting Erin Humiston at (972) 874-5139 or erin@ipi.org.

SOURCE Institute for Policy Innovation

Erin Humiston of the Institute for Policy Innovation, +1-972-874-5139
erin@ipi.org