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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.
Will we still be able to use the Slashdot tagging system to... ... label Dvorak articles "idiot moron troll"? ... tag all articles with questions in the headline with "yes no maybe"? ... label gov't related articles with "facism bigbrother nasa"?
I am just imagining a porn star named Furby.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Isn't *every* day a sad day for the furry porn folks?
You, like the OP, are dealing in non-sequitors. I suppose it is to be expected on slashdot, where faux intellectualism and superficial points lacking in substance are the norm.
So are you implying that we should repeal all anti-spam laws and let the spammers that have been convicted out of jail? We should go ahead and make wire fraud legal? Afterall, we can't necessarily enforce that outside of the US. Should we also make terroristic threats legal? Someone could call anyone from outside of the country where we couldn't enforce it and threaten someone's family. Should we make producing narcotics legal since those can be produced in other nations?
If you follow your logic to its conclusion, it becomes unworkable.
And for what it's worth, the whole "series of tubes" thing is actually a pretty good metaphor for use in the net neutrality debate, even if it was horribly misused.
Thanks for the reminder first thing in the morning jackass. I nearly saw the coffee I just finished drinking again.
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Kids these days with their "furbies" and "walkmans", get offa my lawn!
... won't someone please think of the strippers?!
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
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