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Originally posted by xenigo
Charly,
If I'm reading this correctly, it sounds as if you're almost siding with the Attorney General who drafted this peice of legistlation. He definitely has made his agenda clear, and it goes way beyond protecting the innocent.
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You are reading it wrong then.
Look at the law and the way it's written, are all of the things is asks for doable the way the Adult Internet works? In my opinion and knowledge it's not. This gives a lawyer the argument that the law in itself cannot be enforced.
Now imagine if they had consulted industry people and made a law that could be enforced, but made it very didficult and expensive. What would you prefer?
One of the simplest things is the distributing personal information to every webmaster with free content. Let's say they made people obtain a license to get that information or made you employ a lawyer to maintain it.
I think it was a knee jerk reaction from someone who had to come up with a quick excuse of why his department had never enforced the act. Ash c roft gave the excuse to the Senate committee, that the law was under review so he could not enforce it at the moment.
The original law was in response to Traci Lords having one forged ID when she was under age doing porn. Then they passed 2257 which stil asked for 1 ID and was very flexible about what ID that could be. The industry I worked for insisted on better IDs and two of them.