Posted on 07/25/2006 12:03:04 PM PDT by wagglebee
DISCUSSION ABOUT:
20 Years for Disguising Porn/Harmful Sites As Child-friendly: Senate Legislation
This is wonderful news!
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oh geez - people do this? why? sorry - i know better than to ask.
The House and Senate can pass bill after bill of feel good legislation, but can't find time to confirm the federal judges President Bush has named. The President is also remiss as there are federal vacancies for which he has not put forward names.
If a proper balance of conservative judges is not put in, the 8 years of Bush and Repub. majorities will have been unwisely spent. These feel good laws will soon be overruled by the usual liberal federal judges sitting or who will be sitting.
They don't want them to see 'material harmful to minors'.
You know, like the raunchy zots we have here.
More feel-good bull-crap posturing disguised to look like legislation; soon, there will be no such thing as free speech, each word and phrase will have its price.
We definitely need this, and then also the judges that will back it up. If we dont get the right judges it is no better than passing toilet paper and signing it. It will be overthrown and every petty tyrant of a judge sitting on the bench will laugh it out of court.
What is the hold up on Judges? Why can't our guys kick butt and get it done? it is amazing to see them sit with their heads up their hineys and do nothing.
do sites still use the, "if you're under 18 click here".. that re-directs to disney.com? would that fall into this same category?
My daughter went to cartoonnetwork.com one time but she misspelled it. The misspelled name was one letter off and it was raunchy. That website name was purposely set to get kids there.
OK -- Now can somebody just tell me the provision of the Constitution that grants the federal government the power to regulate such behavior? Maybe it's in there and I just can't find it...
Does anyone have any examples of these sites? Really, what are they claiming these sites to be? What good would it be to put up a porn site, even one with advertisements and have the keywords be "Spongebob" or "Pokemon"? Seems like you'd get enough hits with keywords like "hot teens".
And are these kids exploring the porn links? How old are these kids? Are they going to pay sites? What are they paying with to access content if they are pay sites? Children generally don't have credit cards.
Now if they would only imprison actual child rapists for 20 years or more, we'd actually have something going here...
Now a law that requires all porn sites to be xxx. instead of www. would be useful.
That way any site beginning with xxx. could require greater restrictions.
And this is the nose under the tent to censor the internet. That's their true goal.
Or maybe it was purposely set up to get the teens, 20-somethings, and 30 somethings that like Adult Swim.
You remind me of a time I was teaching a web development class. My boss was observing me that day. One of my students was doing a presentation for the class. She had a web browser displaying from the overhead as she typed in a URL. She misspelled it, and a porn site came up. She got rather flustered because she just showed some porn to the class, and could barely hear me telling her she misspelled the URL. It was amusing.
If I remember correctly, the "site" was just an ad. I'm not sure why you'd target kids without credit cards with these things.
It deals with commerce, Congress is fully empowered to regulate it.
Who decides what's harmful to minors? Maybe Hillary Clinton would consider FreeRepublic or WorldNetDaily harmful to minors. Those sites could leave a poor impression of Bill Clinton's presidency in the poor chirrrrun's minds and that could harm them.
"This is censorship" They would cry.
"Like TV, if you don't like it.... Don't watch it."
So, would they be okay for cigarette and alcohol ads being shown during children's shows?
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