Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags 473
Krishna Dagli writes "The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby" but actually feature sexual content on their sites. Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says." Terrible news for the Barbie/Furbie fetishists out there, to say nothing about being completely impossible to enforce globally.
It will also be punishable... (Score:5, Funny)
...to use the META tags "Congress" and "intelligent" on the same web page.
Idiots (Score:1, Funny)
META (Score:3, Funny)
Does it work the other way? (Score:5, Funny)
How will this affect Barbie Linux (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Congress Once Again Addressing Our Biggest Prob (Score:3, Funny)
Well, web developers have been abusing them for years. I personally hope a lot of these web developing scum are locked up... to make the Internet safe for us application programmers.
Re:What about all the other Barbies? (Score:5, Funny)
What about all the pron stars named Furby?
Probably should post this as AC... (Score:4, Funny)
Good news (Score:4, Funny)
but what about (Score:3, Funny)
DAMMIT! (Score:3, Funny)
Is DOOMED!
Re:They can block and/or punish consumption (Score:5, Funny)
Do you realize how silly you sound not defending freedom of speech?
Re:They can block and/or punish consumption (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What about all the other Barbies? (Score:3, Funny)
The real problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Congresscritter mentality (Score:4, Funny)
Bill Clinton?
Re:Twenty years for this? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm glad to see Congress focusing on the important things -- I'm tired of having to protect my children from improper meta-tags. They need to go after Playboy and Playgirl next... I mean, come on, it has "Play" right in the name! They're trying to get children to think it's fun! Damn greedy bastards, not like those in Congress -- they always look out for our best interests and do it all out of the goodness of their hearts.
Re:Does it work the other way? (Score:4, Funny)
The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.
A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences.
Re:Step in the right direction (Score:5, Funny)
Irony (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't this what got them in trouble to begin with?
Re:What about all the other Barbies? (Score:4, Funny)
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Think of the children... (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed - the poor dears might be scarred for life if they are exposed to images containing great tits [wikipedia.org], penduline tits [wikipedia.org], or even boobies [wikipedia.org]. (And the less said about knockers [wikipedia.org], the better.)
Re:Congresscritter mentality (Score:3, Funny)
The leftists want more Gore, and the rightists want more Bush.
Thank you. I'll be here all night. Try the veal.
The 1990s called (Score:2, Funny)