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I just get some boring site about protecting children. why would anyone filter that?

It's been done before and is not a new idea.

PICS labels have been around since 1996, and were proposed to label for language, violence, and sexual content (among others).

ASACP RTA is another labelling scheme from 1996.

ICRA labels have been doing the same since 1999.

RTA and ICRA are in active use today. PICS fell mostly away (to my knowledge) -- probably because it wasn't just for filtering, but for any kind of content tagging. Being a general solution doesn't get the "save the children" mouth-breathers behind you.

The problem with the rel=nsfw is that it is binary. I can't establish any kind of scale for what I want to see (nudity is okay, sex acts are not), and it only filters in one dimension (I can't say that I am okay with sex, but not with violence, or vice-versa for the U.S.A.).

http://www.asacp.org/ ASACP works hand-in-hand with Customs and the FBI to eliminate CP on the web and otherwise.

Obviously, some of them are members just because it looks good, but they are members nonetheless.

Aside from the obvious (big brother, nanny state etc.), my problem with the tax is that it is punishing legitimite pornography businesses for child porn.

Most adult businesses already donate to organizations like ASACP annually to help fight child porn. It's already a huge offense that something so inhuman like child porn is given the name 'porn' to begin with, as it leads people to make connections between consentual, legal, adult porn and child porn.

This tax would help strengthen that connection and it would also punish legal business because of unrelated scum that prey on children.

Why should legal business be forced to give up 25% of their profits to compensate for a crime that's entirely unrelated ? It could end up taking away money from non-profit organizations that rely on donations to help protect children.

Plus, as someone else already mentioned, maybe they should start taxing gun manufacturers 25% for gun related murders. Tax the food industry 25% to help fight obesity etc.

Wrong wrong and wrong.
There's a fuckload of CP posted all around the world. And i'm talking about the illegal things (not just "pure" naked children, which fall under "art"). They are usually posted to random anonymously postable boards, and are usually deleted quite fast by the moderators.
And while looking around porn sites, I sometimes stumble upon real CP which can't be classified as over 18 in any way.
At those times I report those site to ASACP.

Also, there's a distinguishing between pre-teens and teens. Although 18 is usually considered the age of consent, mother nature attracts people to fully sexually developed children in the age range of 13-18. While I agree that the laws should be followed, this distinction has to be made. Especially in our days, where the average age of starting to have sex in practice goes down quite fast.

I am reporting this therad in http://www.asacp.org/reportsite.html with this comment:

[URL, content description, network location]
"It was posted by an anonymous user in this comment on Slashdot web forum:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138810 &cid=116 15698
as a supposed "mirror" of the discussed article (a sick joke?). Slashdot administrators should provide an IP address of a poster. The illegal website itself is on a public domain and website but on on-standard hidden port 8090."

I hope they will get the bastard who posted it and Slashdot admins will report which URLs were posting the link and replying that it's fine and which were asking for it to be removed. So yes, I am reporting myself. I hope they will get full log of this thread with IPs and they will have a chance to see if I am "just as bad" themselves.