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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: ytl on December 07, 2007, 12:30:29 AM

Title: House Passes New SAFE Act "to Protect Minors Online"
Post by: ytl on December 07, 2007, 12:30:29 AM
http://www.dailytech.com/House+Passes+New+SAFE+Act+to+Protect+Minors+Online/article9928.htm

The US House of Representatives has a lovely new bill they've just passed that makes everyone responsible for obscenity online if they see it or if it happens to go over their Wi-Fi. It's called the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation Online act (or SAFE, get it?!?), and it's yet another overreaching, reactionary pile of crap from our lovely government. But forget about the huge privacy issues and how the responsibilities it'd place on everyone from hotspot owners to email providers would cripple them, according to a lot of people reporting on it, this'll affect one group above all others: 4chan /?/tards. Weep for the future!

Illegal images is an umbrella covering everything from child pornography (and rightly so) to images of minors fully clothed in overly “lascivious” poses and some obscene depictions including drawings, sculpture and painting. The ISP’s are the providers that the act is targeting and the providers would be required to report the user transmitting illegal images and store copies of the alleged illegal images.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: Rick-e on December 07, 2007, 01:00:50 AM
^Yeah right, as if something like this can stop us from distributing them :D

File sharing can't be stopped, simple as that. I'd love to see the gov try.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: Arcadia Victis on December 07, 2007, 01:07:27 AM
At least we'll still have PBs of >18 members. I know I won't miss photobooks of berryz or c-ute. (quite frankly, those creep me out. :puke:)

And I thought the Supreme Court said obscenity was a local issue, not a federal one?
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: anammm on December 07, 2007, 01:07:45 AM
so many more serious things to stop/do and they worry about innocent minors taking some photographs.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: Foxy Brown on December 07, 2007, 01:16:50 AM
according to a lot of people reporting on it, this'll affect one group above all others: 4chan /?/tards.

I guess every cloud really does have a silver lining.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: ASSEMblerEX on December 07, 2007, 02:11:23 AM
Unconstitutional, not enforceable and will be repealed.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: modesta107 on December 07, 2007, 02:57:58 AM
woah,lol,  title scared me at first. I thought they were canceling future H!P PBs and through
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: Mayo on December 07, 2007, 03:35:05 AM
woah,lol,  title scared me at first. I thought they were canceling future H!P PBs and through

If that happened, it would go in the H!P Releases forum, I think.

Anyways, I agree with Rick-e. I'd like to see 'em try.
Title: Re: Bye Bye HP PBs
Post by: doinkies on December 07, 2007, 03:39:11 AM
Unconstitutional, not enforceable and will be repealed.

I agree. I'm sure many people will still try to get around the bill. I also don't think people will stop posting pictures from H!P PBs. I mean, it's not like most H!P PBs are made up of really, really squicky pictures with members wearing thongs and showing their underwear or something. Though some are more suggestive than others, they aren't extreme. If anything, some of the more paranoid may want to only link to bikini pictures of the 16 and 17-year-old members.
Title: House Passes New SAFE Act "to Protect Minors Online"
Post by: Foxy Brown on December 07, 2007, 03:41:48 AM
I abused my power to change the thread title to something a little less misleading.
Title: Re: House Passes New SAFE Act "to Protect Minors Online"
Post by: ytl on December 07, 2007, 07:09:13 AM
It's amazing that only Ron Paul and his other libertarian colleague disagreed with the rest of the house.  No wonder the internet supports Ron Paul for the election next year.
Title: Re: House Passes New SAFE Act "to Protect Minors Online"
Post by: kazitakato on December 08, 2007, 01:41:11 PM
well.....its a good thing that they're having a crackdown on paedos...... but i'm just afraid these guys would get all paranoid and stuff.....effecting our status as Wonka-fans...... we may not be paedos, but sum ppl in society may see us as paedos........hopefully its just me being paranoid.....