You think you're an unchallengeable expert on porn? Uncle Sam wants you - well, the National Reararch Council does, anyway. They've put out a call for volunteers to join a government advisory panel, says Wired. Their aim: a report on how to protect children from online porn and what the magazine calls "other inappropriate Internet content."
Wired says the NRC wants experts in such fields as psychology, Internet commerce, image recognition, law, and religion to serve two-year terms.
The magazine also says this was just too irresistible for some looking for opportunities to ridicule.
In fact, one such did. Center for the Digital Future chairman Thomas Lipscomb wrote the NRC that he had some appropriate nominations - and suggested a near-laundry list of some of the better known censorial minds among public figures, including legal professor Catherine MacKinnon, evangelist Pat Robertson, author Andrea Dworkin, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain.
