[lbo-talk] court upholds CDA

[andie nachgeborenen]

This is not about proof of age for access tio
websites. I've had to answer some legal questions
about the record-keeping requirements of these sites,
which are indeed absurd and onerous. Each photo in the
questioned categories has to be linked to _US_
documentation, maintained by the site provider,
involving name and proof of age -- foreign birth
certificates won't do, e.g., for example, effectively
requiring posters to have US driver's licenses or
state IDs. The law is retroactive. It's not aimed at
proptecting child surfers or even so much at the
international porn trade as imposing very conservative
US standards -- almost the most conservative community
standrads imaginable -- on local content. Many people
with ususual sexaul intertsests or even normal ones
but interest in anonymity will be affected and
deterreed even if theie interests are wholle legal,
and site providers, few if whom are child
pronographers, face draconian penalties. The
difficulty for those unwilling or unable to move
abroad or provide the requisitite documentation is
crushing.  And then there is the present effective
total lack of internet privacy. This is a scary bad
law. jks

--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> > And is a law that requires some proof of age-- a
> credit card, whatever -- 
> > to access a website so terrible?  What is gained
> by demanding that 
> > children have unlimited access to these sites?
> 
> IIUC, no one is objecting to password requirements
> -- almost all such 
> websites already have them, and it usually already
> takes a credit card to 
> get in.  It's rather the onerous recordkeeping
> requirements for all photos 
> -- including those behind password barriers -- that
> would force sites to 
> shut down (and especially non commercial community
> sites where people meet 
> up).
> 
> At least that what they say:
> 
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050704/014160.html
> 
> Michael
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