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While checking out Technorati, I came across an interesting entry that I knew nothing about until reading.  This blogger talked about the newest ideas of how Congress has tried to combat pornography online through its legal system.   

The newest arsenal presented by Congress in attempts to dispose of child pornography and obscenity is through the Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006.  The blogger says its “aimed at not only protecting children from becoming exposed to explicit material, but also encouraging “electronic communications services providers” to report the presence of child pornography on their systems. If they fail to do so, Internet service providers could be looking at fines of up to $300,000 per violation if they don't comply with the directive from Justice.   Among the many aspects of the proposed legislation, it would require adult websites to include warning labels on their homepages and make sure that sexually explicit material is – at a very minimum – a click away.”

If this is the case, then it sounds like Congress is stepping in the right direction to finally rid of this disgusting crime in our society.   U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales adds “I think it is time to deliver a wake-up call about the true nature and scope of this criminal activity – the depth of the depravity and the harm being inflicted upon innocent children.”  Lawyers for the porn industry believe that the government still won’t have a clear definition on what can be viewed as obscene or entertainment.  The porn industry’s lawyer, Lawrence G. Walters, said “"The intent of what the government is trying to accomplish is clearly that they want to put the burden of proof on the ISPs to identify and investigate child porn." Walters added "But what sticks out is that this is just another dishonest attempt to tie the issues of child pornography with adult entertainment. These are two completely different issues, and it is an attempt to rile up the American public and focus that ire on the adult industry, which is not responsible for child pornography. We see this over and over again."

This debate reminds me, and will to you too if you’re from
Buffalo, of the dumb-ass debate over the Peace Bridge.  Our community’s officials have been fighting over building a new bridge to link us with
Canada for almost 10years now.  They can’t decide on whether to build a totally new super span bridge or to keep the old one and add to it.  All of this ridiculous debate has nothing concluding in the near future with only the citizens left to hurt.  This situation is just like the one with the child porn issue.  Fighting will go back and forth, nothing will happen while our children will be continued to be exploited.

So all in all, this seems to be a he said she said situation that will end up going to court many times for many years with no real answers. 

 

On a side note, thanks to this blogger and the entry for the information supplied in my entry.