Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @01:12AM from the oh-this'll-work-really-well dept.

Krishna Dagli writes "The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby" but actually feature sexual content on their sites. Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says." Terrible news for the Barbie/Furbie fetishists out there, to say nothing about being completely impossible to enforce globally.

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Re:They can block and/or punish consumption by smitth1276 · 2006-07-26 01:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh... what other meanings of "Barnie", "Pokemon", or "Barbie" do you regularly encounter that pertain to naked women with semen on their face? Are you actually being serious? Of course, as noted above, this is slashdot, so it wouldn't surprise me if you actually think you just said something intelligent. There are so many faux intellectuals here it is frightening.