PA Child Porn-Blocking Law Challenged, Suspended

An anonymous reader submits: "Pennsylvania's controversial child porn controls have been challenged in court, and in a surprising twist, suspended by the state. If you recall, PA required ISPs within the state to block access to sites hosting child porn. The list (which used IP addresses) is compiled solely by the State Attorney General's Office. The use of IPs resulted in the unnecessary snagging of other sites on the same hosting service. The plaintiffs are the ACLU, CDT, and a Doylestown PA ISP. The State AG, in an odd move, suspended the law and the list indefinitely. [Note: Philly.com appeared to suffer a DDoS earlier today. Please be kind to their admins.]"

Comments

Off topic - PA Child Porn-Blocking

[ralian]

When I saw this post I could only think to myself: "Pennsylvania has employed a child to block pornography?"

Re:Off topic - PA Child Porn-Blocking

[Skyfire]

Makes sense to me, they probably are the best at finding it.

Overloards

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new child-porn overlords...

A suggestion for Google

[cloudless.net]

Put Goatse as the search result for "child porn". It should give some permanent eye damage to the readers.

Re:Well

[gfody]

Then they should just block the range 255.255.255.255.. that of course blocks all child porn sites (and all spam sites too).

the people who are not kitty porn or spam sites can just call and have their ip's removed from the list. the ACTUAL kitty porn peddlers wouldn't have the audacity to call and lie about it

Gotta be cruel to be kind

[Fr33z0r]

Nothing quite like slashdotting someone as they're scrambling around trying to recover from a DDoS. I thought it was deliciously sadistic that the second link (explaining the DDoS) doesn't link directly to the info on the DDoS and instead needs another click, and another pageview.

The DDoSer is...

[Fr33z0r]

Quite obviously this guy.

The disturbance, during which the site was bombarded with more requests for information than it could handle, lasted for nearly six hours and affected more than 30 Knight Ridder Digital sites.

His hatred of David Hasslehoff rages on. 2 mysteries solved in one.

makes me wonder

[Maskirovka]

How the hell would you hire people to evaluate potential sites for the ban list?
Finding reliable people who are emotionally capable of such a job must be an HR nightmare. I can just see the job description:

Researchers needed to evaluate questionable online material of an extremely graphic nature. Must have a professional outlook, neat appearance, and an ironclad stomach. Must also be able to pass a polygraph, and extensive background check. Computer literacy a plus, but willing to train candidates with the right enthusiasm. Benifits include full medical, dental, and a comprehensive psyciatric plan.

Actually this sounds like a shoe-in for de-frocked clergyman. I guess I answered my own question. Carry on.

Re:What they should do...

[jesser]

So you're saying that working for an ISP is a good way to find child porn? Thanks.

PFY's Job (R)

[da5idnetlimit.com]

All Rights of BOFH belongs to Simon Travaglia (http://theregister.co.uk/content/30/index.html), But I really thought of the BOFH and his PFY here...

Bofh - So, you told me you found a job on the side ? And what could that be, seing you spend all your time either here or at home browsing porn ?

PFY - Well, Actually, I found a job at Pennsylvannia's Attorney General Office....

ROFL 8p