01-29-2007, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by Splum
Hey BoyAlley whats wrong with this bill? Just from browsing your short snippet those rules look like common sense to me. Matter of fact Youtube already does provide a warning page on adult material. Myspace and like sites SHOULD be banned at schools how can you argue otherwise? Also it says teachers can unblock sites, so school administrators could unblock places like Wikipedia from the get go.
This just isnt that much to get worked up about for our business is it?
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That's a very fair question indeed. Let me give you my take on it:
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"The first part of the bill would force video service providers to prevent the distribution of child pornography over their services".
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Of course, NO legitimate member of the adult entertainment industry stands for CP in any way shape and form, and we all want to see it vanish and those responsible punished. However, after a second look at this clause, how does one prevent the distribution of child pornography and prove the are doing so? For social networking sites, and porn sites, you prevent it by VERIFYING THE AGE OF ALL PERFORMERS THAT ARE UPLOADED. What does that sound like? How about 2257 all over again, but this time with no exceptions even for user uploaded content.
We ALL want to see CP go away, but this provision could effectively do away with ALL nude content on the internet, that isn't properly indexed with 2257 docs. Adults should be allowed (and the Constitution of the United Stated demands they be allowed) to post nude and/or sexual imagery of themselves. Anything that limits or regulates the protected speech of adults shouldn't be something we as an industry support.
Protect children yes, stop children from being abused and exploited of course, but limit the free speech of consenting adults engaged in legal activities? No.
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It also means that sites wouldn’t be allowed to post adult material on their homepages, and that internal pages containing adult material must contain a special mark.
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This section does away with voluntary labeling like is used in the mainstream movie industry, and in our industry with ICRA and RTA, and mandates labeling, the details of which would be up to the government. Want to have to include a giant visible "THIS SITE IS SINFUL AS DETERMINED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE" image on every one of your pages, instead of (or along with) just an invisible meta tag?
Also, it requires no adult content on the main page of your site, regardless if you have it properly labeled or not. Now, while many of us, myself included, already have warning pages on the homepage of our sites, having the government regulate such makes some people uncomfortable, myself included.
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Section 2, meanwhile, is DOPA: The Sequel. DOPA, you’ll remember, would ban access to social networks and chat rooms in US schools and libraries.
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Many of us have problems with the government banning ANYTHING from libraries. It was a favorite tactic of the Nazis, and is still common practice in the most repressive countries in the world. We don't really want to go down that path do we? |
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