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Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Anybody want to start an over/under on how much... by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    how much PORK is/will be stuffed into this bill? You honestly believe anyone will vote against a bill named the "Child Protection and Safety Act"? The Senate won't even blink and it will saii right through, riders be damned.

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  2. Re:They can block and/or punish consumption by Knuckles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, Barbie is certainly totally devoid of any sexual undertones. Are you deaf, dumb and blind?

    Anyway, this is completely irrelevant anyway. Subcultures of any form will always use the majority language in unexpected ways. To legislate this is way over the threshold of being a police state. And even regular everyday use of words is ambiguous. What's next, legal teen porn sites can't use the word teen anymore?

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