On 4/21/06, Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6063554.html
>
> Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law
> April 20, 2006, 11:35 PM PDT
>
> Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place
> official government warning labels on their pages or risk being
> imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.
>
> A mandatory rating system will "prevent people from inadvertently
> stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet," Attorney General
> Alberto Gonzales said at an event in Alexandria, Va.
>
I must be too much of an old fogey. I say right on. I know that there
are those of you on the list who will regard such an act as "further
dilution of our civil liberties, etc., etc.". The mind boggles that no
one has proposed such legislation before now. Certainly this
legislation can only control sites that are located within the US, but
it's a start to the process of controlling the crap on the internet.
Now if they can just devise penalties for those who fill my inbox with
"enlargement " offers and the latest and greatest mortgage schemes!
--
Collins Richey
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
_______________________________________________
[email protected]
Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
