New Internet Regulation Proposed 429
bumgutts writes "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has suggested a mandatory website self-rating system. The system, very similar to one suggested under Clinton's administration, would require by law all commercial websites to place 'marks and notices' on each page containing 'sexually explicit' content, with penalty up to 5 years imprisonment." From the article: "A second new crime would threaten with imprisonment Web site operators who mislead visitors about sex with deceptive 'words or digital images' in their source code--for instance, a site that might pop up in searches for Barbie dolls or Teletubbies but actually features sexually explicit photographs. A third new crime appears to require that commercial Web sites not post sexually explicit material on their home page if it can be seen 'absent any further actions by the viewer.'"
Re:boobies (Score:3, Informative)
Morons (Score:4, Informative)
Introduce this and stuff the UK (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too late (Score:3, Informative)
this woman used press credentials (probably for shintangren (NTD?), the falungong media group) to get on the white house grounds, up on the camera stand, and then started screaming at the top of her lungs at president Hu when he started talking...
Bush indicated to Hu that he was ok, and he should go on.
The press guys tried to chill her out, but didn't restrain her.
Finally, secret service got up to the top of the platform and escorted her out. She's charged with disorderly conduct.
I don't think the administration did anything wrong here at all, since she snuck in under false pretenses and disrupted the media coverage of a major diplomatic event... and it was not a public area.
Re:Too late (Score:3, Informative)
"Hadley said Wang was an accredited journalist who had attended White House events before "and had not raised a problem.""
The disruption part was the only bad part. Although there's mention in another athat they are considering additional federal charges against her.
"She was charged with disorderly conduct and could face additional federal charges, said service spokesman Eric Zahren."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/21/bush.china
Re:Either way, his numbers seemed off to me (Score:2, Informative)
Yesterday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales issued a kiddie porn "wake-up call":
"It is not an exaggeration to say that we are in the midst of an epidemic in the production and trafficking of movies and images depicting the sexual abuse of children," Gonzales said.
"The threat is frighteningly real, it is growing rapidly, and it must be stopped."
The attorney general said one of every five children online is now solicited. He cited a recent estimate that 50,000 predators are online at any given time prowling for children.
Gonzales attributed the one-in-five stat to "one study," which is most likely a 2000 report conducted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But way back in 2001, Spiked Online's Sandy Starr actually read that report:
The NCMEC's national survey of 1501 American 10- to 17-year-olds found that 'approximately one in five received a sexual solicitation or approach over the internet in the last year'. There is a huge leap from 'sexual solicitation or approach'...to 'approached by a paedophile'.
The report found that almost half of the solicitations reported did not come from an adult, but from other children: 'juveniles made 48 percent of the overall and 48 percent of the aggressive solicitations.' The report also points out that only 'one quarter of young people who reported these incidents were distressed by them'. 'Sexual solicitations' between children in an internet chat room are the online equivalent of adolescent fumbling, a world away from the threat of paedophilia.
Gonzales himself gave the source for the 50,000 prowling predators, citing "the television program Dateline."