Giving the government blanket permission to screen every image you come in contact with on the web and log it to you (and use the information to judge your behavior and punish you for it if they so choose) is yet another inch of creepage in the slippery slope into the toilet the Constitution is sliding down. I once thought McCain was a good guy. I have two teenage daughters myself, but this could be twisted in all kinds of horrible ways.
The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or “cartoon” minors. Failure to do would be punished by criminal penalties including fines of up to $300,000.
The Securing Adolescents from Exploitation-Online Act (PDF) states ISPs that obtain “actual knowledge” of illegal images must make an exhaustive report including the date, time, offending content, any personal information about the user, and his Internet Protocol address.
Another section of the draft bill says that anyone convicted of certain child exploitation-related offenses who also used the “Internet to commit the violation” will get an extra 10 years in prison.
The Justice Department, for instance, indicted an Alabama man in November on child pornography charges because he took modeling photographs of clothed minors with their parents’ consent and posted them online. The images were overly “provocative” and therefore illegal, a federal prosecutor asserted.
Don’t post pictures of your kids in the bubble bath, no matter how cute, or your ass is grass.
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Then embed links. email me @yahoo if you want me to tell you how.
#31 – I know how to do a link tag and I’ve used shrinkster as an alternative here. Just letting you guys know because I’m sure I’m not the only one who now not only can’t create tinyurl’s from work but I can’t read those links either.
To stay on topic I would venture that McCain contacted SonicWall personally and caused this problem. 😉
Honestly, everything about topics like these give me a major headache. It’s looking more and more like our entire society has no real moral compass and our leaders can’t or won’t set aside personal desires for wealth/power or whatever equivalent to actually make a sincere attempt to find a course that benefits this society.
The , for me, scary aspect of all this is I do not see anything getting better but instead, I see even more serious issues we will have even less options to work with and leaders similar to McCain have never shown me they really wanted to look for the answers.
How can I get the big picture if someone decides it’s illegal for me to look at and puts me in jail ?
Of course, Child Porn is wrong, as is the exploitation of any person. However, the -effect- of this legistlation would be a log of all of our online activities under our name, or at least household. Imagine how useful such information would be for political oppression; when dealing with liars, be sure that their true motivations are not loudly spoken.
Child porn is a real problem these days…and if we can protect our kids i say why not? the cartoon thing…im undecided on…its not my thing…but meh…if no one is being hurt why not?…