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ACLU and CDT Challenge PA Child Pr0n Law
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posted by scubacuda
on Thursday January 08, @11:40AM
from the "as-efficient-and-exact-as-possible" dept.
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USA Today and others report that the ACLU and Centre for Democracy and Technology have asked US District Judge Jan E. DuBois to reverse a "well-intentioned but technologically misguided" PA law aimed at fighting child pr0n. "This case is not about supporting anyone's ability to access child pornography," John B. Morris Jr., a lawyer for the groups said, "Our focus ... is access to (constitutionally) protected material." The ACLU and CDT claim that the law blocks access to 800,000 legal Web sites.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday January 08, @04:24PM (#1431)
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This area will continue to be a mess until the law returns to the concept of individual responsibility.
The proper charge against the owner of an adult website, who fails to take steps to keep minors off of the site, is _negligent_ corruption of a minor.
Once the law restores the idea of individual responsibility, then the solution will follow, because the owners of adult websites will be motivated to take some simple steps.
And one simple step would be for the owners of websites that feature adult material (sexual, or otherwise) to use ".adult" URLs and "adult." newsgroups (for example). Parents would then be able to set up a firewall, or choose an ISP, that filters out those URLs.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Friday January 09, @02:57PM (#1432)
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I agree with your ideas on the .adult domain, but this case deals more specifically with kiddie porn. Kiddie porn is legal in some places, but illegal in most. Many kiddie porn sites are hosted outside of the US, so the state of Pennsylvania can hardly do anything to shut down the sites, but they can block access to them.
Enforcement of the .adult domain would also be difficult for kiddie porn. As I stated before, its illegal in most places. Most of these sites are hosted in places where it's illegal. Somebody who's hosting child pornography on the internet obviously has little regard for the law, and would most likely not adhere to domain name regulations.
Another point to look at is that pornography featuring children might not belong in the .adult domain, seeing as how adults don't star in it. Perhaps .kiddie-porn would be better, then ICANN could force the few legal kiddie porn sites there, then the US could block access to *.kiddie-porn. ICANN would never agree to this though because it would look like they were accepting and allowing kiddie porn.
Perhaps a more simple plan would be, dare I say it... Government funded proxies for ISPs to keep the kiddie porn blocked. Or just give participating ISPs a break on their taxes.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be
lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
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