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Title: Senator (John McCain): Illegal images must be reported
Source: C/Net
URL Source: http://news.com.com/Senator+Illegal ... orted/2100-1028_3-6142332.html
Published: Dec 11, 2006
Author: Declan McCullagh
Post Date: 2006-12-11 20:44:20 by Zipporah
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Views: 272
Comments: 13

Senator: Illegal images must be reported

update John McCain proposes law to force Web sites to report unlawful activity and delete posts by sex offenders.

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Published: December 8, 2006, 6:40 PM PST

Last modified: December 11, 2006, 3:25 PM PST

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Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.

The legislation, drafted by Sen. John McCain and obtained by CNET http://News.com, would also require Web sites that offer user profiles to delete pages posted by sex offenders.

In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate warned that "technology has contributed to the greater distribution and availability, and, some believe, desire for child pornography." McCain scored 31 of 100 points on a News.com>http://2006">News.com 2006 election guide scoring technology-related votes.

After child pornography or some forms of "obscenity" are found and reported, the Web site must retain any "information relating to the facts or circumstances" of the incident for at least six months. Webmasters would be immune from civil and criminal liability if they followed the specified procedures exactly.

McCain's proposal, called the "Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act" (click for PDF), requires that reports be submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which in turn will forward them to the relevant police agency. (The organization received $32.6 million in tax dollars in 2005, according to its financial disclosure documents.)

Internet service providers already must follow those reporting requirements. But McCain's proposal is liable to be controversial because it levies the same regulatory scheme--and even stiffer penalties--on even individual bloggers who offer discussion areas on their Web sites.

"I am concerned that there is a slippery slope here," said Kevin Bankston, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "Once you start creating categories of industries that must report suspicious or criminal behavior, when does that stop?"

According to the proposed legislation, these types of individuals or businesses would be required to file reports: any Web site with a message board; any chat room; any social-networking site; any e-mail service; any instant-messaging service; any Internet content hosting service; any domain name registration service; any Internet search service; any electronic communication service; and any image or video-sharing service.

Kate Dean of the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association said her members appreciated McCain's efforts to rewrite the current procedures for reporting illegal images, which currently are less than clear.

McCain's proposal comes as concern about protecting children online has reached nearly a fever pitch in Washington. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave two speeches recently on the topic, including one on Friday in which he said "we must do all that we can to protect our children from these cowardly villains who hide in the shadows of the Internet."

But the reporting rules could prove problematic for individuals and smaller Web sites because the definitions of child pornography have become relatively broad.

The U.S. Justice Department, for instance, indicted an Alabama man named Jeff Pierson last week on child pornography charges because he took modeling photographs of clothed minors with their parents' consent. The images were overly "provocative," a prosecutor claimed.

Deleting sex offenders' posts

The other section of McCain's legislation targets convicted sex offenders. It would create a federal registry of "any e-mail address, instant-message address, or other similar Internet identifier" they use, and punish sex offenders with up to 10 years in prison if they don't supply it.

Then, any social-networking site must take "effective measures" to remove any Web page that's "associated" with a sex offender.

Because "social-networking site" isn't defined, it could encompass far more than just http://MySpace.com, Friendster and similar sites. The list could include: Slashdot, which permits public profiles; http://Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists; and blogs like http://RedState.com that show public profiles. In addition, media companies like http://News.com publisher CNET Networks permit users to create profiles of favorite games, gadgets and music.

"This constitutionally dubious proposal is being made apparently mostly based on fear or political considerations rather than on the facts," said EFF's Bankston. Studies by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children show the online sexual solicitation of minors has dropped in the past five years, despite the growth of social-networking services, he said.

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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)

John - you silly jack-off, you.

Shut-up, die, or please, just go away.

Lod  posted on  2006-12-11   20:49:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#2. To: lodwick (#1)

isnt he nauseating?

Zipporah  posted on  2006-12-11 20:50:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: lodwick (#1)

Too bad the Vietnamese didn't kill him.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-12-11 20:58:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: lodwick (#1)

You WISH!

That sack of crap will end up being the next president. Mark my words. The school of fish (i.e. Voters, AKA idiots, dumbasses, consuming sheep, etc...) will be panicked by the net of EB Hillary and some quasi-marxist running mate of hers, we'll be on the cusp of the crucial parts of the tax cuts expiring (like estate and bracket rollbacks) and other such crap, and they'll be herded right into the McCain net.

He's gonna get the TOTAL Dole ride unless he gets slapped down in the primaries again. "Ah, Well, he's the "elder statesman" you see, and he's had the skin cancer and beat it, and it's his turn to get a shot at the big slot before he reaches the twilight years"...

Cry me a f***in river man, we're going to get a reaming, and it's going to be soon, and it's going to be LONG and HARD. You name it, illegals, taxes, guns, health care, surveillance, WOT, WOD... People who care that this is a Constitutional Republic are in for a long and bitter retreat, one that probably ends up somewhere physically for most, where the climate and remoteness is enough to keep the candy assed masses that make up the majority of Nanny State lovers down to a managable level. Unfortunately, that's probably when the real fighting starts too...

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