Did you know June is National Internet Safety Month? Me neither. But it is, thanks to Senate Resolution 205, which “calls on Internet safety organizations, law enforcement, educators, community leaders, parents and volunteers to increase their efforts to raise the level of awareness for the need for online safety in the United States.”

An admirable goal–encouraging parents to develop a better sense of what their children are doing online, right? Why not formalize what so far have been ad hoc conversations about Internet safety inspired by the latest MySpace scandal? It’s just too bad nobody seems to know about it–except the folks who created Resolution 205, who, let’s face it, are just as apt to block access to social networks and Internet chat rooms in federally funded schools and libraries as they are to declare June National Internet Safety Month.