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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.
This is good news for freedom of expression, and for the internet in general, because most of it consists of porn.
In other porn news, bestiality-porn is about to be made illegal in my country, which saddens me because I like goats.
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lol goatse
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Those are some interesting points you have there. Why don't you go read the ruling and come back and make some points that have even a little bit to do with it. I mean come on, this isn't about verifying that seventeen year olds are not browsing your porn site. It's about keeping track of the age and identity of the young gal who is being double penetrated and face fucked whose picture you are putting on your website. Seriously. How hard is it to read a pdf?
Oh dear. We have ourselves a religious nut here.
I know it's tempting to try and force the ideals of your religion on anyone who'll listen (and if Christian, even the people who wont) but you need to be aware that it is the individual's decision what ideals they want to follow, provided they walk within the bounds of the law. If a person chooses to watch this type of material, that's their call. Not yours. Not your holy books. And might I add, you religious folks need to stop trying to get the ideals of your holy book codified as law - ironic that they preach that "god gave us free will to make our own choices" and then object when someone exercises that free will.
Woah, going way off topic here.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
I wonder if the judges would've ruled differently if they had seen this compelling video. This law could have protected many people of questionable age from exploitation in the prono industry.
Ah nice... can everyone now PLEASE remove those anoying "age-check" drop-downs again? It's stupidly obvious that everyone just selects something between 1901 and 1980 with one swoop from the mouse-wheel.