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Attorney General Gonzales Calls for Mandatory Web Site Rating System
Keep your eyes open in Congress for the "Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006." Not "bill," nor "act," "amendments." These will be snuck into some other law later this year and passed, likely without the knowledge of most people in Congress.
In a nutshell, Gonzales wants to force web sites with adult material- including things such as bikini shots, as in no nudity- to use special HTML code created by the government to advise browsers of sexual content and to trigger screening software. The law would also require a screening page- if a person websurfing goes to a website and sees sex on the first page, the site owner becomes a criminal. It'd also be illegal to use any terms in the site which might lead children using search engines to the site- like "Teletubbies" or "Barbie," for example.
Violators would face five years in jail, plus fines.
This is, of course, only another tool in the hands of a man who has declared it his intention to abolish pornography altogether, in all its forms. He's even set up a task force for that very purpose.
But it'll pass- just as the re-authorization, unchanged, of the unconstitutional Child Online Protection Act passed last year. No Congressman will vote against anything which claims to prevent child pornography, and as amendments the laws can be snuck into as many other bills as it takes until it eventually passes. No one in Congress will notice or care.
WLP already uses back-end coding to trigger screening programs, and we also use screening pages... which only work if you link to those screening pages, instead of to the page behind the screen.
So if you have a link to any WLP page with adult material that doesn't go to the "Are you 18?" page, FIX THE GODDAMN LINK NOW.
Please.
Keep your eyes open in Congress for the "Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006." Not "bill," nor "act," "amendments." These will be snuck into some other law later this year and passed, likely without the knowledge of most people in Congress.
In a nutshell, Gonzales wants to force web sites with adult material- including things such as bikini shots, as in no nudity- to use special HTML code created by the government to advise browsers of sexual content and to trigger screening software. The law would also require a screening page- if a person websurfing goes to a website and sees sex on the first page, the site owner becomes a criminal. It'd also be illegal to use any terms in the site which might lead children using search engines to the site- like "Teletubbies" or "Barbie," for example.
Violators would face five years in jail, plus fines.
This is, of course, only another tool in the hands of a man who has declared it his intention to abolish pornography altogether, in all its forms. He's even set up a task force for that very purpose.
But it'll pass- just as the re-authorization, unchanged, of the unconstitutional Child Online Protection Act passed last year. No Congressman will vote against anything which claims to prevent child pornography, and as amendments the laws can be snuck into as many other bills as it takes until it eventually passes. No one in Congress will notice or care.
WLP already uses back-end coding to trigger screening programs, and we also use screening pages... which only work if you link to those screening pages, instead of to the page behind the screen.
So if you have a link to any WLP page with adult material that doesn't go to the "Are you 18?" page, FIX THE GODDAMN LINK NOW.
Please.
