Senators OK $1 Billion for Online Child Porn Fight

A bill that could allocate more than $1 billion over the next eight years to combat those who trade in child pornography has been unanimously approved by a Senate panel. "The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to send an amended version of the Combating Child Exploitation Act, chiefly sponsored by Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), to the full slate of politicians for a vote. [...] An amendment adopted Thursday also adds new sections to the original bill that would rewrite existing child pornography laws. One section is designed to make it clear that live Webcam broadcasts of child abuse are illegal, which the bill's authors argue is an "open question." Another change is aimed at closing another perceived loophole, prohibiting digital alteration of an innocent image of a child so that sexually explicit activity is instead depicted."

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Re:thought crime

[Firehed]

I take it you're from Europe, or else that would read:

Given the current trend in exchange rates the government seems to be ahead :(

Re:ridiculous straw man

[Hognoxious]

80% of the people are white too. But the median household income for whites is ~48,000 and the median household income for blacks is ~30,000

So what you're saying is that being poor justifies being a criminal, or that robbery is OK because it's just a form of income redistribution?

If you aren't, then exactly what is your intention in stating those figures?

Re:Uhuh...

[pembo13]

Quite agreed

They can't catch music downloaders that way!

[Jane Q. Public]

They are failing to prove in court that people downloaded music, using the same techniques (even when it has been illegal to use them), and prosecuted by multibillion-dollar corporations using as aggressive and nefarious methods as they have been able to concoct!

So, what? Are we going to waste a BILLION DOLLARS failing the same way with this plan?

Give me a break.

Re:ridiculous straw man

[inviolet]

No, wrong, there is no "default" point of view that is someone's onus to dispel, except the null hypothesis that it's all due to chance.

It was your onus to prove that "society and culture" are at fault as was claimed. This is so because there is a 'default' hypothesis here: wherever blacks go, we see the same problems, including in nearly-all-black countries. This is the only meaningful 'default' assumption, because no sane person could think it was all due to chance.

And I think you'll find that if you start looking at the socio-economics across countries, especially if you start looking at crime in non-black communities and countries, you'll find that economics first, and politics second, are the dominating factors, not race.

Certainly you've found a strong correllation between black poverty and black crime. Let us assume your assumption about causation is correct. The debate then suddenly changes from "Why are half of them criminals?" to "Why are most of them poor?", which is asking the same question in two different ways. The question underneath both is: why does one race show consistently problematically lower levels of cognitive ability, civility, and self-discipline?

We're talking about the society of the United States, of which blacks are just one part, and you therefore can't consider black culture in the U.S. in isolation.

True enough. Luckily enough there are plenty of other countries that are nearly all black and have always been so. Guess what you'll find there?

And if you think the society as it arose was an automatic effect of them being here, I think you've got your history backwards. Besides, go back in time, and we could just as easily be talking about violence in Italian American or Irish American communities. Think that's an inherent problem of those people too?

Nope, we have plenty of data showing that whatever problems those cultures had, they've sorted it out.

Haha, this sounds just like the "women don't want to work with computers!" If this is your tack, step one is ask what they want, not assume that their desires just happen to perfectly match your social biases.

It's a rare person who can answer that question with honesty and accuracy. It'd be a fool's errand to figure out what an entire race 'wants'.

An easier question to answer is: where do they succeed and prosper today? I'll tell you two places: sports teams, and the military. Both environments offer a lot of structure. And that's why I suspect that a free democracy does not offer them sufficient structure to rise to the esteem of the other races.