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Title: Senator (John McCain): Illegal images must be reported
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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: 216
Comments: 13
Senator: Illegal images must be reported By < Published: December 8, 2006, 6:40 PM PST update 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.
isnt he nauseating?
Too bad the Vietnamese didn't kill him.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
If they didn't need their McChurian candidate, they would have, imo.
lol
his fellow GOP pervs are NOT going to be happy about this proposal.
At a wrinkle in time.
Who determines what's 'illegal"? Falwell? Robertson? I have a small suggestion...how about you bloodsucking hellbound politicians repent of your many sins, then get the hell out of our lives? What kind of frickin' idiot votes for this drooling power-crazed moron? If McCain's lust for power was equal to his lust for his wife; Cindy would be the happiest girl in the world.
I'll second that.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - - George Orwell
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order; and those who have once got an ascendency and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantages." Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798
Why is John McCain so supportive of Bush and Cheney after being so viciously attacked by them in the 2000 campaign? The answer to this question may partially rest in Navy records detailing the events that took place on the USS Forrestal in "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin at the end of July 1967. The neo-cons, who have had five years to examine every file within the Department of Defense, have likely accessed documents that could prove embarrassing to McCain, who was on board the USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967, and whose A-4 Skyhawk was struck by an air-to-ground Zuni missile that had misfired from an F-4 Phantom. What have sealed Navy records given to the neo-cons to blackmail McCain? Plenty, according to eyewitness on the USS Forrestal. According to an eyewitness to the Navy's worst fire disaster that killed 134 sailors and injured 62, McCain and the Forrestal's skipper, Capt. John K. Beling, were warned about the danger of using M-65 1000-lb. bombs manufactured in 1935, which were deemed too dangerous to use during World War II and, later, on B-52 bombers. The fire from the Zuni misfire resulted in the heavy 1000 pounders being knocked loose from the pylons of McCain's A-4, which were only designed to hold 500-pound bombs. During the fighting of the fire and while VF-74 and VF-11 were still counting their dead, McCain was helicoptered off the Forrestal to the USS Oriskany, which suffered a major fire on October 27, 1966, that killed 44 sailors. In that event, thousand pound bombs were jettisoned away from the fire but the lessons of the Oriskany went unheeded by the Forrestal's officers, including McCain, who served with the VA-163 Saints on board the Oriskany when the fire on that vessel occurred. On October 26, 1967, McCain was shot down over North Vietnam during a bombing sortie from the Oriskany. Aug. 29, 2005 -- Bush celebrating McCain's 69th birthday with a cake. Bush and his operatives may have more than a cake up their sleeves when it comes to McCain's Navy record prior to his time as a POW. The unstable bombs had a 60-second cook-off threshold in a fire situation and this warning was known to both Beling and McCain prior to the disaster. On January 14, 1969, the USS Enterprise, steaming 75 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, suffered a major fire. In that episode, similar unstable 1000-pound bombs detonated, killing 27 sailors and injuring more than 100. At the time of the Enterprise disaster, the Commander-in- Chief of US Pacific Forces was Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.,Sen. McCain's father. At the time of the Forrestal disaster, Admiral McCain was Commander-in-Chief of US Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) and was busy covering up the details of the deadly and pre-meditated Israeli attack on the NSA spy ship, the USS Liberty, on June 8, 1967. The fact that both McCains were involved in two incidents just weeks apart that resulted in a total death count of 168 on the Forrestal and the Liberty, with an additional injury count of 234 on both ships (with a number of them later dying from their wounds) with an accompanying classified paper trail inside the Pentagon, may be all that was needed to hold a Sword of Damocles over the head of the "family honor"-oriented (McCain's persona is supported by his book about his father and grandfather, both Navy admirals, titled "Faith of My Fathers") and the "straight talking" McCain. The Bush administration and neo-cons may have uncovered reams of documents that throw cold water on that public perception. COPIED
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...
"pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home for Emma"
Oddly, I just finished speaking with a McLame caller who said that he'd just "lost" his steering-committee, and was in need of jack as he seeks the fReaks' nomination. I told her that I'd rather see either of my dogs elected...she laughed, thanked me, and said Good-bye.
-Thomas Paine
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
#3. To: lodwick (#1)
#4. To: YertleTurtle (#3)
Too bad the Vietnamese didn't kill him.
-Thomas Paine
#5. To: YertleTurtle (#3)
Too bad the Vietnamese didn't kill him.
#6. To: Zipporah (#0)
#7. To: Zipporah (#0)
"Once you start creating categories of industries that must report suspicious or criminal behavior, when does that stop?"
I've already said too much.
#8. To: Zipporah (#0)
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.
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#9. To: christine (#5)
Too bad the Vietnamese didn't kill him.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
In a CorporoFascist capitalist society, there is no money in peace, freedom, or a healthy population, and therefore, no incentive to achieve these - - IndieTX
#10. To: Zipporah (#0)
Here's a couple to get the ball rolling.
#11. To: Zipporah (#0)
#12. To: lodwick (#1)
You WISH!
#13. To: Axenolith (#12)
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.
-Thomas Paine
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