Internet safety group broadens mission

I’m in Washington DC today helping to launch the Family Online Safety Institute. For details, see this AP story

By DIBYA SARKAR
AP BUSINESS WRITER

WASHINGTON — The explosion of social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Second Life, along with free video sharing sites like YouTube.com, is making it increasingly difficult to protect children surfing the Internet, says Stephen Balkam, who founded a voluntary Web site rating system seven years ago.