Supreme Court to revisit Net porn law

[boxboy28]

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to revisit the thorny question of how to protect children from online smut without resorting to unconstitutional censorship. "The case asks whether, in the name of children, Congress wants to restrict too much material that adults have the right to see or buy. On a more practical level, the court will decide whether the government can require some form of an adults-only screening system to ensure children cannot see material deemed harmful to them."

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[Engine]

This will only hurt us.

[AKIron]

It would be easy enough to offer parents the tools to help protect their children by requiring all sites with porn to identify themselves via header. Browsers could then be configured via password to block those sites. This would infringe on no one's constitutional rights.

[Trell]

Wow  I agree with Iron,  will wonders never stop.
It would be an easy solution to implemenet and still keep the user the option to turn it on or off

[SOB]

Exactly what Iron said.  Would it really be that hard to require a new HTML tag to be placed on all sites with adult content, and be supported by any browsers out there?  Seems like a pretty easy fix, and making it easy for smut providers to do something positive to help is a good idea, considering the fact that any law enacted by the US congress is only going to be good in the US.

[fd ski]

great idea, and how you going to enforce it on the sites located outside of US ?

[AKIron]

Obviously it can't be enforced outside of the US but what Nation wouldn't want to expend such little effort to protect it's children?

[fd ski]

well iron, even our own US companies aren't coorperating on spam issues because there is too much money involved.
Same will apply to foregin contries where proper palms were greased.

Btw, i agree that something should be done, but don't think the current idea is workable. you are basing it on good will of those living off the smut, think about it.

[AKIron]

I don't think those under 18 contribute much to the financial profitability of porn sites, could be wrong. Not suggesting the disclosure be voluntary, make it law, worldwide. Stiff penalties to violaters and rewards to those reporting them.

[Eagler]

yes
leave porn but be sure to remove "God" from the Pledge

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Eagler
yes
leave porn but be sure to remove "God" from the Pledge

ROTFLOL!:D

[FUNKED1]

Your tax dollars at work.  

[DmdNexus]

There goes my sex life - Sheesh!

[gofaster]

Originally posted by AKIron
I don't think those under 18 contribute much to the financial profitability of porn sites, could be wrong. Not suggesting the disclosure be voluntary, make it law, worldwide. Stiff penalties to violaters and rewards to those reporting them.

You're on the right track - minors don't have credit cards.  Profitable solution would be no more free porn, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.  More logical solution would be to require credit cards prior to giving out free trial samples, but then there's the "trust" that the porn provider won't charge anyway.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by DmdNexus
There goes my sex life - Sheesh!

You'll always have the AH sheep.