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Your Byron Review hopes/fears

• Darren Waters
• 26 Mar 08, 12:58 GMT

is to release her government-backed review into the net, video games and children on Thursday and we'll be covering its findings online, on TV and on radio.

At the time the review was announced there was a lot of grumbling from people in the games industry unhappy that games were being lumped in with the net.

The crux of the dismay was that while the video games industry is a well-regulated, important creative industry the net is effectively the Wild West; so why the need to combine the two?

I spoke with Tanya Byron at the end of last year and I got the impression she would have preferred to separate the two out but time and money was never going to make this possible.

So what are your hopes and fears for the Byron Review?

More regulation? Cyber police? Fines for websites that don't enforce child-friendly policies?

My expectation is that the Review will walk a careful line between education and awareness with little in the way of direct regulation/legislation, and probably none at all.

But we'll all know more soon.

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