The Internet SAFETY Act - Everything Old is New Again
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A Texas Republican has a bunch of "brand new and original" ideas that he has rolled up into what he calls the Internet SAFETY Act (Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth). The first part of the plan is to require ISPs and providers to record the names and addresses of all subscribers and maintain records to help in sex offender investigations. The other part of that idea is to force ISPs to report any act of child pornography by fining providers that don't with $150,000 fines for the first offense and up to $300,000 for the second. ISPs that knowingly facilitate the transfer of child pornography would be hit with fines and up to 10 years in prison.Neither of these "brand new and original" ideas are unique - both have been tried in the past. The problem with such a law is making the ISP the "cop" to patrol all of the sites within their hosting network, a task that for some providers would be nearly impossible. It is clear that those who propose these laws have no idea as to the vast and layered infrastructure that is involved in web site hosting. While it is an excellent thought on the outside, it is something that would be very difficult to manage. As far as ISPs and providers that knowingly facilitate the transfer of such content - that might be an easier law to apply, if there is reasonable proof that the ISP was aware of the illegal content and it doesn't become a witch hunt.Another part of the SAFETY Act would be to "force" adult-oriented web sites to place "clearly identifiable marks or notices" into the HTML code. It's laughable for anyone who has ever spent any time online to assume that adult webmasters would have to be "forced" to put marks in their HTML - in fact, most webmasters have some sort of labeling set up. ICRA: Internet Content Rating Association (www.icra.org) which has been around for years and is used by parental blocking software programs such as the popular Net Nanny and other to determine content ratings. RTALabel.org, a new labeling program designed by the adult industry to provide further notification of adult content on a site. As far as reporting child pornographers, there is the well-known ASACP (Adult Sites Against Child Pornography) that works tirelessly with the government to crack down on child pornographers and exploiters - all programs supported and used regularly by adult webmasters.Something needs to be done to put these child pornographers and exploiters out of business, and while it might seem on the outside that the adult industries are a great place to start, those types of sites and those types of people are not a part of the adult industry. Adult webmasters, site owners and publishers have worked for YEARS to keep those people OUT of the industry, reporting them when they see them and removing them from anything connected to legitimate, legal, professional businesses.
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A Texas Republican has a bunch of "brand new and original" ideas that he has rolled up into what he calls the Internet SAFETY Act (Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth). The first part of the plan is to require ISPs and providers to record the names and addresses of all subscribers and maintain records to help in sex offender investigations. The other part of that idea is to force ISPs to report any act of child pornography by fining providers that don't with $150,000 fines for the first offense and up to $300,000 for the second. ISPs that knowingly facilitate the transfer of child pornography would be hit with fines and up to 10 years in prison.Neither of these "brand new and original" ideas are unique - both have been tried in the past. The problem with such a law is making the ISP the "cop" to patrol all of the sites within their hosting network, a task that for some providers would be nearly impossible. It is clear that those who propose these laws have no idea as to the vast and layered infrastructure that is involved in web site hosting. While it is an excellent thought on the outside, it is something that would be very difficult to manage. As far as ISPs and providers that knowingly facilitate the transfer of such content - that might be an easier law to apply, if there is reasonable proof that the ISP was aware of the illegal content and it doesn't become a witch hunt.Another part of the SAFETY Act would be to "force" adult-oriented web sites to place "clearly identifiable marks or notices" into the HTML code. It's laughable for anyone who has ever spent any time online to assume that adult webmasters would have to be "forced" to put marks in their HTML - in fact, most webmasters have some sort of labeling set up. ICRA: Internet Content Rating Association (www.icra.org) which has been around for years and is used by parental blocking software programs such as the popular Net Nanny and other to determine content ratings. RTALabel.org, a new labeling program designed by the adult industry to provide further notification of adult content on a site. As far as reporting child pornographers, there is the well-known ASACP (Adult Sites Against Child Pornography) that works tirelessly with the government to crack down on child pornographers and exploiters - all programs supported and used regularly by adult webmasters.Something needs to be done to put these child pornographers and exploiters out of business, and while it might seem on the outside that the adult industries are a great place to start, those types of sites and those types of people are not a part of the adult industry. Adult webmasters, site owners and publishers have worked for YEARS to keep those people OUT of the industry, reporting them when they see them and removing them from anything connected to legitimate, legal, professional businesses.
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