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PA Child Porn-Blocking Law Challenged, Suspended

Posted by timothy on from the broad-brush dept.

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.]"

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  1. The good, the bad, and the opportunity by TLouden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good to see an effort to stop child porn
    Bad implementation is a little dissapointing
    So, who's gunna make the next filter for the ISPs to block the sites without hurting others sharing the IP?

    I think something like this is just waiting for the proper implementation to really get it going and then other states (countries?) might follow suit.
    Keep up the good work.

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    -Tim Louden
  2. I used to work for a porn host by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When we found child porn (or cp as we called it), we just deleted it. We didn't tell anyone. When we tried to cooperate, local police would tell us one thing, US Customs another, and the FBI would tell us something else. And they all acted like they were minutes away from arresting you. The laws vary so much and the agents were such dick heads, that we just quitely deleted it. By the way, it was easy to find. Just watched the logs, any new user that immediately sky rocketed in bandwidth usage was almost 100% cp. Hehe, I still have a plastic file box that we would keep the records in (when we were cooperating.) It had a label on it that read 'The PedoFile'.