Porn to be made illegal on college campuses??? WTF??????
 

Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Max Baucus, (D-MT) have proposed a bill that would require all commercial websites with material of a sexually explicit nature to block access to any consumer visiting the such websites through an ".edu" domain....within 6 months of this bill becoming law -- or face civil penalties.

Under the terms of the proposed law, the US Commerce Department secretary would be required to develop a software that will automatically scan all campus networks for images containig "flesh tones" as an aid to enforcement. The Federal Government already uses such software to monitor it's own offices.

That's just fucked

Just one step closer to putting us all of of business.

This guy is such a fucking douche.








By Alison Vekshin
Stephens Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- College students surfing the Internet could be buffered from pornography under legislation introduced in Congress Friday.

Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., proposed a bill that would require adult Web sites to block all ISP's on .edu domains from accessing them.

"The only way parents can really block or screen out or protect their children when they go to college is to literally go with them to school, stand there and look over their shoulder as they're online," Pryor said at a news conference. "And it really shouldn't have to be that way."

The Cyber Safety for College Students Act would require the Commerce Department secretary to develope and implement software that would detect any images of an adult nature residing on computers on campus.

Under the new law any University that fails to comply within six months could face civil penalties.

Pryor, the father of two children, cited a Kaiser Family Foundation study that found 99 percent of college students between the ages 18 and 24 have come across pornography online, mostly in the course of using the Internet to help with their homework.

The senators acknowledged the bill was a first step and would not completely protect college students from Internet porn.

Many of the companies that comprise the $12 billion Internet porn industry operate offshore and would be difficult to regulate, they said.

"We are not saying this is going to work 100 percent of the time in every single case," Pryor said. "We do think that this would be a dramatic step in the right direction."

Adult industry representatives say the bill if enacted would have a chilling effect on free speech.

"This is constitutionally protected speech -- we're not talking about illegal content," said Tom Hymes, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, the trade association representing the adult entertainment industry.

"The likelihood is that this legislation would be challenged as being unconstitutional were it to go through," Hymes said.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., introduced similar legislation last summer calling for a 67% percent tax on Internet porn transactions that would pay for programs protecting college students online use. Lincoln's bill was sent to the Senate Finance Committee

One step closer to China

This is one post you wish was an April Fools.:Oh crap

Fuck that. Lets start out by burning the books that show nudity.

Just a matter of time til you have to have a credit card for AV to even get online at all.

What a fucking idiot. Why should parents protect their ADULT children from sexual content?

Well thats a damn good question. I told you he was a douche.

Oh wait... April fools :disgust

Yeah I made it up. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh



Just rewrote a couple of articles.

You beat me to it. I knew this was a good one. She writes a lot about .xxx and taxing porn.

http://www.arkansasnews.com/cgi-bin/...shin%20;page=2

Pryor introduces .xxx domain name bill
Friday, Mar 17, 2006

By Alison Vekshin
Stephens Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Children surfing the Internet could be buffered from pornography under legislation introduced in Congress Thursday.

Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., proposed a bill that would require adult Web sites to have a .xxx domain.

"The only way parents can really block or screen out or protect their children is literally just stand there and look over their shoulder as they're online," Pryor said at a news conference. "And it really shouldn't have to be that way."

The Cyber Safety for Kids Act would require the Commerce Department secretary to develop a domain name for adult Web sites with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

The group is an international non-governmental organization that designates domain names like .com, .edu and .gov.

Under the bill, companies that fail to register with the new domain name within six months could face civil penalties.

Pryor, the father of two children, cited a Kaiser Family Foundation study that found 90 percent of kids between the ages 8 and 16 have come across pornography online, mostly in the course of using the Internet to help with their homework.

The senators acknowledged the bill was a first step and would not completely protect children from Internet porn.

Many of the companies that comprise the $12 billion Internet porn industry operate offshore and would be difficult to regulate, they said.

"We are not saying this is going to work 100 percent of the time in every single case," Pryor said. "We do think that this would be a dramatic step in the right direction."

Adult industry representatives say the bill if enacted would have a chilling effect on free speech.

"This is constitutionally protected speech -- we're not talking about illegal content," said Tom Hymes, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, the trade association representing the adult entertainment industry.

The proposal is an ineffective approach to the problem since many of the adult Web sites are based outside the country and the civil penalties would not apply to them, he said.

Hymes said the companies would find ways to circumvent the new designation, including moving their operations offshore.

Instead, he proposed setting up a .kids domain name for children-friendly content.

The industry would incur costs from new registration fees and losses from existing marketing campaigns on .com and .biz domains, Hymes said, but he did not think it would get that far.

"The likelihood is that this legislation would be challenged as being unconstitutional were it to go through," Hymes said.

If the bill passes, software could be developed to block the .xxx domain from Internet searches, Baucus said.

Pryor likened the proposal to the sanctions on adult magazines at convenience stores and zoning laws restricting strip club locations in neighborhoods.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., introduced similar legislation last summer calling for a 25 percent tax on Internet porn transactions that would pay for programs protecting children's online use. Lincoln's bill was sent to the Senate Finance Committee.


Clever

You shouldnt give them bad ideas like that, Jim. They might act on them. I'm sure the senators read GFY. ;-)

I do agree that students shouldn't really browse porn at the college library or during classes... don't you ?

But on the other hand, campuses should be responsible

what a moron. these 'children' are over 18 when they go to college. they can legally look at whatever the fuck they want.

lol (note to self: read entire threads on april 1st before replying)

Binge drinking, drugs, unprotected sex,... and <gasp> pornography! We need to do something about these "college campuses"

college was great. didn't look at much porn in my 4 years there....too busy getting completely wasted and getting the real thing.

I hate april fools :mad:


:1orglaugh

bad news :(

well
for those of you never been to college and those have

high school students and younger students do visit
college campuses to do research

it isn't a bad thing for library and public ones
college students should have access inside the dorm rooms
thats private :thumbsup

Well congrats, this prank fooled me. I'm a college student who runs my own porn sites and I was thinking to myself as i read that "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" You got me, now go fuck yourself~

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