Some commetary on the new Domain Laws

[Mike AI]

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0025567.html

Bill Provides Help to Fight Child Crimes
By David Brody, Washington, D.C., correspondent


There is a lot more than just the "Amber Alert" to cheer about in the new child crimes bill.

Both the House and Senate last week passed the Child Abduction Prevention Act, which cracks down heavily on sex offenders. The Amber Alert is part of the legislation and has gotten most of the press, but there's a lot more in the bill that will help protect kids.

Joanne Donnellan, with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said the bill is rich in crackdown material. For example, the bill mandates that if a sex offender is convicted for the second time, he'll get life in prison. Also, child kidnappers would get a minimum sentence of 20 years in jail.

"Children now are going to be protected in a far greater way than they ever have," Donnellan said. "It really does send a strong message that we're not tolerating this type of behavior any more and that if you're going to go out there and harm our children, you're going to be tracked down quickly and you're going to face the harshest penalties."

Bruce Taylor, with the National Law Center for Children and Families, said the bill also calls for 25 extra prosecutors to go after pornographers on the Internet.

"There's a lot of good and great things in there. This is a good day for kids," Taylor said. "Maybe that's going to make or can make the biggest difference in the . . . war to protect children from the porn syndicates, because now we have some troops to go fight this."

And there's more. The bill calls for jail time and fines for any pornographic business that lures kids to its site using misleading domain names. Congressman Mike Pence, R-Ind., likes that idea.

"What we're doing is shutting down also a major method of child predators in having access to our kids," Pence said.

President Bush is expected to sign the bill.

[Hooper]

President Bush is expected to sign the bill.

Yay bush! Wee Bush! Wave The Flag! Quote the party line! He's not after pornographers, he's after the bad guys! (is that good? or am i supposed to quote rush limbaugh too?)

Now if he could just beat me in a spelling bee my entire attitude would be changed.

[cj]

I like how 'pornographers' are thrown into the same category as child kidnappers and sex offenders.

because that's the porn industry's intent, to go out there and harm children.

fuck me, how do we defend ourselves against this garbage?!

[Vick]

Originally posted by cj@Apr 14 2003, 10:46 PM
fuck me

Ahhhhh Ahhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhh from CJ's lips to my ears :P
It's HARD ............. (fill in your own jokes there)


Actually we can't but
If (what I hope) the minority of people who don't get it yet would get that
A- Pornographers don't want to harm children and there is a WORLD of difference between someone who enjoys adult entertainment and a pedophile - and they are not and never have been the same thing nor should be lumped together

B - Everything is driven by the almighty dollar, kids have no CC's to buy porn, we as pornographers don't want as customers or any type of consumers


Ok now back to your regularly scheduled Oprano programming, I just couldn't let a "Fuck Me" from CJ go .....

p.s. I got .50 that says I'm not the only one

[Mike AI]

Come now Hoop, the law passed 99-0 in the Senate. This is not George Bush's law.... its ALL politicans law.

Vick - I think you are right. You want my .50 now?

[sarettah]

Yeah, but it would have been more like 51-49 if it hadn't been attached to the amber alert bill......

Fucking piggybacking laws to get them passed should be against the law....

Hmmm, maybe have to talk to my senator about piggybacking that one on to a "feed the starving Iraqi children" bill or something

[Mike AI]

I think it would have passed by a higher margin. There are NO politicans who like pornographers.... They are all dangerous to us. They are ignorant on technology, and will lash out against US to get more votes, to prove they are "doing something for the kids".

[Carrie]

*nodding*
It isn't a Rep/Dems thing, it's a porn thing.

Sare if you honestly think that the bill would've been 51-49, just imagine those Dems going home to their town meetings and explaining why they voted against an internet pornography bill... ain't gonna happen. That would be nearly as suicidal as voting against this amber alert bill.

[Mike AI]

Carrie, you are correct.

We should not be saying its Bush's fault or the Democrats fault, when all politicans hate us.

We should be discussing the details of the bill. How it might be applied, and other important issues that we might actually have to deal with in the future.

I know writing my congressman won't help me out....

[sarettah]

Ok maybe a higher margin...

But I would hope that enough of the pols would have common sense enough to see that this law is pretty much the same as regulating "branding" or physical store names...

Part of the domain name laws sounds (excuse me if I misquote, I read the stories yesterday, a lot of brain cells dissolved between then and now) like if you dont explicity have the word "sex" or "porn" or "adult" in the name, that you wcould be open to scrutiny....

If those rules were applied to stores, then Spencer's Gifts would be in trouble, Victoria's Secrets (and Victors) would be in trouble....

A brand name is supposed to grab attention, not describe the product necessarilly... A domain name is a brand name of sorts...

So, I would hope for more common sense, but would not be surprised when I didn't find it....

[ulfie]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 15 2003, 12:10 AM
Carrie, you are correct.

We should not be saying its Bush's fault or the Democrats fault, when all politicans hate us.

We should be discussing the details of the bill. How it might be applied, and other important issues that we might actually have to deal with in the future.

I know writing my congressman won't help me out....

Every month I get my copy of AVN online and it drives me insane reading it. They have a point of view that democrats are "porn friendly" which is complete nonsense. Neither party is our allie. That's a fact. Millions of people watch porn but would never tell their neighbor they do. When some politician shows up beating his chest about how he's going to stop it those same people will applaud him. Hypocricy at its finest.

[cj]

Originally posted by Vick+Apr 14 2003, 11:08 PM-->