SecurityRatty: Congress Finally Suggests New Rules for that New-Fangled Internet

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Congress Finally Suggests New Rules for that New-Fangled Internet

2008-07-28 15:25:56 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource

Congress, the bastion of democracy and founders of new legislation for our dear country, apparently have hopelessly outdated rules about how its members use the Internet — they aren’t allowed to post content on any site besides house.gov — meaning no flickr, youtube or other social networking. It also means many members are already violating the rules, posting to youtube, tweeting from the House floor and so forth.

New rules are being proposed, but there’s some debate over them because they would still be restrictive–from Ars Technica:

The new rules, proposed in a letter by Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-MA), would allow members to use third-party sites so long as official content is not “posted on a website or page where it may appear with commercial or political information.”

This would be difficult since most third-party sites like YouTube display automatically generated advertisements and related user content next to featured video.