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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.
I've been a smut peddler for almost seven years. Even if the AVS isn't required by legislation, you can still expect them to stay around. In addition to the AVS being a good way in general to sell site access, it is also required by a lot of content licenses. For example, if I license a porno video to put on my site, it will say right in the license that I must put that video in a protected area behind some sort of AVS (read: credit card) barrier.
No credit card requirements for porn sites to verify my age anymore then?
Great! More porn easier. Not AC because I am not afraid to let people know I like watching sex.
Yes I am over 18.
If you don't want your kids looking at it try a little thing called parenting.
yet another attempt to regulate to death what the government can't outright prohibit.
So you'll be first in line to criticise any regulation of firearms then? Oh wait, this is Slashdot ... :-)
Interesting troll.
The first link that you would assume is dangerous is in fact completely benign. The reader, now less concerned, is more likely to click on the signature link right below, which logs you out. Not that bad. Still, this fails because it's all transparent to anyone who can mouseover the links. If you want to be successful you'll need to learn to mask your URIs.
If they have nudity in their advertising, yes. However, it's still legal to sell whisky less than 18 years of age.
"Where I live in GA we have this massive number of "massage parlors"
I live in Atlanta, but am thinking of moving. Where exactly are these signs/places located?