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Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal
happyclam writes "CNN says that Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is announcing a new combination bill that would do two things: (a) outlaw filming someone via hidden camera without their permission except in public places, and (b) provide for an adult-only domain such as .prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated--the sites would have to give up their .com/.org/.net domains they own today. The first part makes sense, but the second clearly treads on free speech to some extent and will have a hard time going through, I imagine." I wonder if having an actor at the press conference is a new requirement for a bill to be introduced in congress.
Holy fucking shit! I'm on the telephone to my reps as soon as I get this profane fucking tirade hammered out.
.mil and .edu domains only to legitimate military and educational institutions? The nerve of these scatmongers.
teenpussy.prn! What's next: restricting
and what if you run a site on how to detect breast cancer, by lubricating the breasts, then placing a penis between them and squeezing them together, feeling for lumps?
What is this chick thinking ? What's next, appointing a $95 million committee to study the effects of AnalSluts.com vs AnalSluts.prn ?
They are Still Anal Sluts !
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But your Honor, we had a notice on display about the videotaping.
"But the plans were on display....."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes", said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked
filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying
'Beware of the Leopard'"!
- Douglas Adams
An open letter to those under-regarded /. members: /. user foolishly clicks on a "funny" link. They're not really sure about goatse.cx, but you can be damn sure they won't click on goatse.prn. No more lulling n00bs into having a pleasant shock. I can say it in no stronger terms than this: If this law passes, /. trolls will lose a great deal of their "classic" material. You need to fight for rights!
This is a time of great chaos. But there is a threat even greater than terrorism and the CPDPTPDTA (sp). Yes, and that is goatse.prn
What about "goatse.prn"?
Well, think about the effectiveness as a new
Send a letter to your congresspeople and senators asking to vote against this bill! Remember, "People come for the goatse.cx, not the goatse.prn!"
For your convenience (probably to busy hitting "refresh", looking for first post, huh?), here is a sample letter.
Dear congressperson,
I am a pathetic loser who appreciates diluting valuable content with disgusting images. This gives me pleasure, and by passing this bill, you will be hurting my very livelihood. So when the time comes for you to vote, remeber:
Think of the trolls, not the children.
Thanks for your valuable time.
Now we need a law to remove the 'p' key from keyboards that could be used by children.
Support SETI@home
They'll get my .net when they pry it from my cold, dead DNS record.
.com, and a .org. Once I get an .edu, a .gov and a .mil,
C-X C-S
I also have a
I'll have collected the whole set!
Then they will all combine to form Voltron, and I'll rule the world!!
If I see a site named www.poon.prn, I won't know what it is until I load it.
.cum domain...
On the other hand, if you use a
Oh?
What about personal ("Ego") sites and hobby sites that don't fit as a
Maybe we need a
The problem with Playboy is not the photographs, which are, as you point out, relatively benign. The problem is the cartoons. It is just wrong to expose children to such "entertainment" crafted (or, to be safe, emitted) by individuals with no detectable sense of humor.
That would depend on what your definition of "is" is.
I can't believe it's not lard!
but still, this would be messy
.prn domain?
Isn't that the whole point of the
I hope I'm one of the first to have found this.
If surreptitious videotaping in the home is illegal, then evidence obtained by it is inadmissable in court.
This leads to interesting potential solutions to problems in burglary: if you know the target's got a camera going, strip down to your thong and running shoes. At your trial, all that clear video of you filling bags with cash and heirlooms just goes away...
This would seem to be the case, but I'm not a lawyer, anyone with a legal background have an opinion on this?
On the second part of the bill: yeah, we're still seeing laws made by people who understand neither the technology, nor the global nature of the it.
To mail me, remove the 'mailno' from my email addy.
"Yeah. It smells, too..."
Wait...this is good! No longer would we have to put up with X10 ads telling us to video tape the girl next door!
--
J Boylan
"You did read the article right?"
You do realize your on Slashdot, right?
You know who used to have that job? The U.S. Supreme Court.
Seriously, one of my professors at the University of Texas, Scot Powe, clerked for William O. Douglas. At that time lawsuits about what was and was not obscene were being filed individually, and the justices (or their clerks) had to watch each one to write a brief on it for the decision.
Powe said the best part was walking out of one particularly bland showing with Thurgood Marshall, who turned to him and said, 'I think we need to send that one over to the FTC for false advertising.'
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
Kent Brockman: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal government has snapped into action. We go live now via satellite to the floor of the United States congress.
Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of --
Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.
Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill? [everyone boos]
Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]
Kent: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.
Why, is there another way?