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Originally posted by 12clicks
"""The attorney general's staff searched the Internet for child pornography and also set up a Web page that allowed Pennsylvania residents to report instances of child pornography.
The office then "sent about 500 informal notices to the ISPs through whose services the offending material had been accessed, asking the ISPs to disable their subscribers' access to the sites. The ISPs generally wrote in response that they had complied with the notice," the attorney general's office said in a brief."""
Mr. Fiction, stop defending child pornography.
As always, you're on the wrong side of the issue.
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"But attorneys for the CDT argued that over 1 million websites that do not contain child pornography have also been blocked since the attorney general's office started sending out notices to ISPs in April 2002.
"It's not as simple as telling an ISP to stop people from accessing
www.zzz.com. Each domain name can have several IP addresses attached to it and each upper level domain name can have hundreds of subdomains below it," said networking consultant Mike Sweeney. "It would equivalent of nuking a city block when all you needed was the flyswatter to kill the fly.
"The idea of Pennsylvania blocking sites was a misguided attempt of censorship by clueless public service officials," Sweeney added. "If they had taken the time to talk to knowledgeable technical people, all of this would have been explained at some level and the state of Pennsylvania would have been spared the embarrassment of looking like a bunch luddites who are technically inept. Trying to block sites this way is doomed to failure."
Ahem. While I'm all for the eradication of child pornography, I am NOT all for ANYONE telling me what I can and cannot veiw by blocking it through my ISP. Certainly there's a better way to help stop child pornography.
Think about it. If the law in PA states that sites can be blocked from showing immoral material, how many other states will suddenly do the same thing? Quite a few, believe it or not, I'd just about bet on it. That will bring some nasty repercussions to the adult industry. You know, the industry in which we work.