House Passes New SAFE Act "to Protect Minors Online"

[ytl]

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.

[Rick-e]

^Yeah right, as if something like this can stop us from distributing them

File sharing can't be stopped, simple as that. I'd love to see the gov try.

[Arcadia Victis]

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. )

And I thought the Supreme Court said obscenity was a local issue, not a federal one?

[anammm]

so many more serious things to stop/do and they worry about innocent minors taking some photographs.

[Foxy Brown]

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.

[ASSEMblerEX]

Unconstitutional, not enforceable and will be repealed.

[modesta107]

woah,lol,  title scared me at first. I thought they were canceling future H!P PBs and through

[Mayo]

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.

[doinkies]

Unconstitutional, not enforceable and will be repealed.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.

[Foxy Brown]

I abused my power to change the thread title to something a little less misleading.

[ytl]

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.

[kazitakato]

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.....