On 04/22/2006 12:18 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
On 4/21/06, Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6063554.html
Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law
April 20, 2006, 11:35 PM PDT
Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place
official government warning labels on their pages or risk being
imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.
A mandatory rating system will "prevent people from inadvertently
stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet," Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales said at an event in Alexandria, Va.
I must be too much of an old fogey. I say right on. I know that there
are those of you on the list who will regard such an act as "further
dilution of our civil liberties, etc., etc.". The mind boggles that no
one has proposed such legislation before now. Certainly this
legislation can only control sites that are located within the US, but
it's a start to the process of controlling the crap on the internet.
Now if they can just devise penalties for those who fill my inbox with
"enlargement " offers and the latest and greatest mortgage schemes!
Which just begs the question. What if someone decides that what you,
Collins, say online should be outlawed? Would that be OK too, as long
as some other old fogey's say 'right on'?
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