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.

Comments

Stupid.

[Anonymous Coward]

That means I can't set up video tape surveillence inside my house?

So now my house has less privledge than a public place.

I guess its not my "castle" anymore. Its just a nuisance to this numbskull.

Another case of "how do we filter"?

[zorba1]

This reminds me of the recent story of libraries filtering adult content (or not, as the case may be). How does one really determine if something belongs as a .prn versus a .org?

If I show pictures of breasts, am I .prn automagically? What if I run a site on breast cancer? Am I automatically .org?

.prn type sites adult-verify anyway

[Seth Finkelstein]

Note the hard-core (pun unintended) sex sites are in fact the ones most compliant with keep-minors-away requirements. That's because they want paying customers.

From the District Court CDA decision

Perversely, commercial pornographers would remain relatively unaffected by the Act, since we learned that most of them already use credit card or adult verification anyway.

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

Re:What about

[Zeinfeld]

Actually, the article does not explicitly mention porn. The new domain would be for "material harmful to minors".

By whose definition? The tyope of material I would not want my child to see is:

• All hate material produced by the "Christian" Coalition and like groups
• The Fox news network
• The hate material produced by both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the appologists for the extremists on both sides.
• William Safire's op-ed pieces (see above)
• Advertisements for mighty morphin power rangers, pokeemon, and other plastic junk I am expected to buy.

Somehow I very much doubt that this is the type of material that congress considers harmful to minors.

What this really comes down to is that the Republicans are affraid that their children might ask them awkward questions they don't want to answer. To which I say tough titties, how do they think we all feel when we have to explain GWB to our kids?