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Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags
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.
...to use the META tags "Congress" and "intelligent" on the same web page.
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Yet again American law makers show the world that they just don't understand tha intarweb.
This is something they should have done a long time ago. I think that all meta tags should be related to the content of the website. The use of improper meta tags could also generate non-content related ads from Google and other contextual advertisers.
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Can costumed fetishist adults sue a 12-year-old girl for describing her pet puppydog as "furry" on her livejournal?
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I hope they remove the pictures of Linus Torvalds from the Barbie Linux ISOs after this announcement.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Well, web developers have been abusing them for years. I personally hope a lot of these web developing scum are locked up... to make the Internet safe for us application programmers.
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Does this imply that any porn star named Barbie has to change her name (again) before starting up a web site?
What about all the pron stars named Furby?
But this is going to be a sad day for fans of My Little Pony porn.
All those Furby messages were clogging up my internets tubes anyways. Now I'll be able to send my proper and non-pornograpgic internets easier.
the lego porn? http://drew.corrupt.net/bp/
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My new web site www.funwithbarbiesandfurbieshappyinnocentfunsitefo rkidswithabsolutelynoanalsexipromise.com ...
Is DOOMED!
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Maybe the naked woman's name is Barbie? I'm sure at some point in time a naked woman named Barbie has been in a picture such as this. And maybe a guy named Barney is providing the facial. These are real names, you know.
Do you realize how silly you sound not defending freedom of speech?
Developers: We can use your help.
What about a woman masterbating with a barbie with a furbe shoved up her ass while a guy in a barney outfit masterbates on her face?
What about a porn star named "Optimus Prime"?
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
...is the other way around - those sites that advertise "Free Porn - Nude Celebrities" and when you go to them there are no nudes, no celebrities, no porn, and nothing is free. What a rip!
Bill Clinton?
Congress knows that you're wrong and evil -- trying to get kids to come to your pornsite (don't try to hide behind it being a "business" and you "charging" people, they know you have a magical internet-powered scanner that forces kids to see porn for free!). You think 20 years is "too harsh"? What, you think there's some law or bill (like a... a bill of rights?) against "cruel and unusual punishment"? We'll teach YOU to meta-tag. As John Romero would say, Congress will make you its bitch!
I'm glad to see Congress focusing on the important things -- I'm tired of having to protect my children from improper meta-tags. They need to go after Playboy and Playgirl next... I mean, come on, it has "Play" right in the name! They're trying to get children to think it's fun! Damn greedy bastards, not like those in Congress -- they always look out for our best interests and do it all out of the goodness of their hearts.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
I agree completely. And what's worse is when I'm innocently looking for porn and I get to Mattel or Toys-R-Us. Do you know how embarresing that is for my co-workers to think I'm shopping for little girl's toys? They know I don't have a daughter. I have to lie and say I'm shopping for my niece.
From TFA: [the act would also] Force sex offenders to provide a DNA sample
Isn't this what got them in trouble to begin with?
I believe I will start an adult film agency called He-Man pictures, and as directory and primary actor my film name will be Ken. The first starring actress' name will be penned "Barbie Matel". Then I will build a website. Buwahahahaha!
If he were wearing a purple dinosaur suit and singing, "Barbie is a sleazy slut for my ejaculation...", they might have a point.
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"... 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."
Indeed - the poor dears might be scarred for life if they are exposed to images containing great tits, penduline tits, or even boobies. (And the less said about knockers, the better.)
So...
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There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
They want their flawed web search approach back