House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham

It's amazing how little these people understand how these things work. Even if you store the information you have to then view it. Or is it one of those laws that if you do nothing you are not liable?

it is exactly "if you do nothing you are liable". Yet interestingly, if you were caching the pages (for review by your security people that you would be forced to hire) you would end up potentially storing the very illegal material they seek to get rid of, which would in a sense make your security people break the law.

It is the first attempt to render a common carrier (technically an open Wi-Fi connection or a pay per connect Wi-Fi is a common carrier) liable for the material their end users choose to view. it is a rare occasion where the slippery slope is all too obvious.

Another stupid anti-CP law that won't stand up to basic existing legal precedents.