BUSINESS Tuesday December The Salt Lake Tribune Steps to Make the Internet Safer for Kids America Online: Provide on its welcome screen a button that automatically steers members to screening and other parental controls a expand blocking option so that parents can restrict on-- f specifically designed for younger teens — 13 to 15 Initially AOL gave parents three choices to limit access: kids only teen and Create a "notify AOL" button letting members report inappropriate activity to AOL from key parts of the service includand instant messages and the member ing chat directory area tion Evidence Falls later the Utah Securities Division took action Two weeks In Securities aimed at getting Modlin's license yanked in the state But they subsequently learned from Meyers Pollock's lawyers the call was made by Harry Son a broker who apparently had used the other man's name without permission because he was not licensed in Utah Jim Gilson a Salt Lake City lawyer representing Meyers Pollock says the firm is contesting Utah civil action to revoke the brokerage's license It also will oppose the criminal action that alleges it willfully employed an unlicensed agent in Utah In its response to the state Meyers Pollock says all of the agents who Utah regulators say violated state securities laws have been fired suspended or have resigned And some supervisors have been terminated In addition Meyers Pollock says it has hired two assistants for the compliance manager at its home office The brokerage also says it has directed all of its offices to refrain from making any further transactions in Utah except to sell securities held by existing customers Regulator's Lap Continued from B-- S 18-pl- Launch an online campaign to give members information on blocking software safety and security on the Internet Disney Online: Provide parents with online information about sites on the Net AT&T WorldNetService: Create a children's page on the company's Web site that links users to sites appropriate for kids MCI: Offer a series of "smart surfing workshops" next year to train parents and children on the good and the bad parts of the Internet The Learning Company: Add next year a new feature to its Cyber Patrol screening software to let parents restrict children's access to Web-base- d chat rooms and message boards American Library Association: Expand links and compilation of Internet sites The collection is available at wwwalaorgparentspage-greatsite- s Industry Vows To Help Parents Police Internet D Continued from free-speec- h B-- 5 The efforts grow out of a White House meeting this summer that Clinton said yielded a consensus on "how to pave the way to a family-fri- Internet without paving over the constitutional guarantees to free speech and free expression" The Supreme Court in June struck down a law designed to keep cyberspace's seedy side away from children It said the 1996 Communications Decency Act in attempting to protect chil endly dren from indecent material on the Internet improperly restricted the rights of adults for the Hoping to avoid a Internet representatives from the computer-relate- d industries have been working on voluntary efforts to make the Internet a safer place for youngsters The White House has said it wants a solution "as powerful for the computer as the will be for the television" The would allow parents to block unwanted programs Instead of seeking new legislation to force the computer industry to shield children from Internet smut — as some in Congress are doing and some groups want — the Clinton administration is pushing a system of voluntary restraints cense following several calls its representative made to him In each instance according to Jenkins the Meyers Pollock brokers made false statements and failed to disclose important information about the investments they were pitching "You would think they would not keep calling back" he says When he received the Aug 23 call Jenkins says he asked the Meyers Pollock broker to call him back at work and the broker did two days later Jenkins booted up his computer and called up the Securities Division's data base containing the background on every broker registered with the state He flipped on his tape recorder invited a few colleagues into his office and listened to the pitch Jenkins thought he was talking to Meyers Pollock broker Scott Modlin who was misrepresenting his brokerage experience He pressed Modlin for the details of his background saying he had done some checking The broker ended up saying there might be two people with the same name and similar background at Meyers Pollock "That's a heck of a coincidence" Jenkins told him according to a transcript of the conversa- - 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