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Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-hidden-cameras-in-the-capitol-building dept.

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.

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  1. Another case of "how do we filter"? by zorba1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

  2. Re:What about by Zeinfeld · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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?

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