Social networking & the European Commission: homepage | Europa - Information Society
in the interest of online child safety, the European Commission encourages those who create new interactive tools to adopt rules and principles themselves (self-regulation). The Commission's role is to bring all the relevant players (industry, associations, etc) together for them to agree on these rules and principles.
via ec.europa.eu
This initiative is being support by companies such as Bebo, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo! and many others. Hat tip to Craig Thomler.
