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Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites
How Appealing reports that a court has struck down age verification requirements for porn sites, as a First Amendment violation. Here is the ruling (PDF). While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net. The age verification requirements of U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 were yet another attempt to regulate to death what the government can't outright prohibit. The requirements intruded on the privacy and safety of performers and created headaches for sites like flickr and photobucket that host images. It is has long been thought that the requirements wouldn't hold up in court, but this is the first actual ruling.
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Of course not. People don't go to these sites to read, now do they?
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
David Gould
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In their summary, How Appealing notes that the requirement was struck down as "facially unconstitutional."
slashdot will now allow images in the comments section?
that's a joke
no really, it's a joke
PLEASE NO
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
As written in the summary above it is about the performers/models or whatever title they go by.
It spells it out rather clearly here.
"U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257"
Granted, it's rather telling that I know what U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 is right off the bat.
Jason Lotito