Food for Thought

[Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy]

I've always wondered about alternative solutions to the pornography 
debate.  Make it even simpler, is there a problem with having adult 
sites return a specific meta tag or a header?  Then, filter content 
based on the HTTP response.  I've never played with proxy software,  but 
if this were made law, I don't imagine it would be difficult for 
software manufacturers to make the change.  Let me know if there are any 
holes in this idea.

zscoundrel wrote:

> Not really.  The STATED INTENT behind the law was good, who can argue 
> with protecting our children from pornography.
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> Unfortunately, the execution was poor, and the TRUE INTENT was 
> criminal.  The true intent of the law was to sell filtering software.  
> Do we really need laws to make software makers rich?  The answer is a 
> resounding NO! Since the true intent of the law is bad, the law is bad.
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> Instead of making three quarters of the country buy filtering software 
> that has to be constantly maintained and updated, why not just require 
> all web sites with adult content to have ".adult" instead of ".com"?
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> It would be simple and easy to filter for this, and the losers that 
> insist on trying to sneak around the law by using .org or .com would 
> be in violation of the law just like the adult bookstores that sell to 
> minors.
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> Everyone still has their freedom of speech, and the schools and 
> libraries have an easy way to filter to protect the kids.
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> Remember, the costs involved in all of this comes right out of OUR 
> POCKETS.  Bad laws and bad lawmakers cost all of us a lot of money, 
> because ultimately, in spite of all the accounting tricks, we (The 
> People) have to pick up the tab.
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> Philip, Anil [PCS] wrote:
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>> I do not have any quarrel with the bills listed there eg "Child Online
>> Protection Act", and CIPA "Under CIPA, schools and libraries that 
>> receive
>> certain Federal funds are required by law to censor the Web,..."
>> Those are *good* laws.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel at kc.rr.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:46 AM
>> To: Subject: Food for Thought
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>> You think your vote doesn't mean much, think about how these people 
>> got into office, and how we can get them OUT!
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>> http://www.aotc.info/archives/000152.html#000152
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