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.
Step in the right direction (Score:3, Interesting)
Anybody want to start an over/under on how much... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What about all the other Barbies? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:They can block and/or punish consumption (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:They can block and/or punish consumption (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, this is completely irrelevant anyway. Subcultures of any form will always use the majority language in unexpected ways. To legislate this is way over the threshold of being a police state. And even regular everyday use of words is ambiguous. What's next, legal teen porn sites can't use the word teen anymore?
If you just actually have furby porn on your site (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Congresscritter mentality (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, "save the children" is extremely popular with the left, too. From a FA linked in TFA:
*- out of context, but are those "controversial issues" some pork projects hidden in the 163-page bill?
Re:So? (Score:2, Interesting)
Jaysyn
Re:But is there actually a problem? (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, Barbie did get her start as a sex-toy... (Score:2, Interesting)
"In 1957 Ruth conceives of a three dimensional adult-like doll. The body is based on German doll called "Lilli" which is sold as a sex toy for men."
Re:Sex != Harmful (Score:2, Interesting)
The world is a horrible place, but in my experience it isn't sex that makes you realize it.
Re:Sex != Harmful (Score:3, Interesting)
Believe me. I was one of the "innocents".