CP80 is not about "legislating morality" or eliminating porn. It's simply about providing internet users a choice as to whether they want "adult content" readily available on the computers of their children or their employees. The CP80 solution has been validated as "easy to implement within current infrastructure" by the CTO of Cisco, and many other top technologists who have taken the time to look at it, as opposed to the knee-jerk reactionaries on this string. A few facts for those who perceive this as a threat to their favorite hobby:
1. The CP80 Community Port initiative would have absolutely no effect on those like their internet porn and want to keep on consuming it. If it were enacted these freedom loving practioners would not have to change anything. Things would be business as usual, unless of course they were in the habit of practicing their "free-loving" at work while on their employer's computer and internet connection. CP80 would give businesses (who don't want to pay their employees to masturbate on the job)and parents(who don't want delegate their kid's sex education to the Larry Flynt-wannabees of the www)the ability to contact their ISP and "opt out" of the port carrying adult content.
2. The good old US of A still controls the internet through ICANN. Whatever internet policies ICANN lays down, the world follows. The only effect that the proposed legislation will have is to dictate the creation of a community port, and an open port, and then put in place the ability to pull the IP address of any internet publisher who attempts to push adult content through the designated community port. It's the same process used today by ICANN to regulate sites who publish CC numbers or other illegal content. The only difference is that adult content providers would simply be routed out of the community port.
3. No one at CP80 is trying to "draw the line" as to what constitutes "adult content". Those lines already exist in a multitude of places (content filter companies, Google SafeSearch, etc).
4. Whatever your views on porn in general, no right-minded person can say that kids should have ready-access to the kind of crazy crap that is availble on the net today. And before you say it I'm going to cut you off with a statement of unassailable truth, "filters don't work". The CP80 initiative is a pragmatic, realistic and simple solution to a bad problem.
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CP80 is not about "legislating morality" or eliminating porn. It's simply about providing internet users a choice as to whether they want "adult content" readily available on the computers of their children or their employees. The CP80 solution has been validated as "easy to implement within current infrastructure" by the CTO of Cisco, and many other top technologists who have taken the time to look at it, as opposed to the knee-jerk reactionaries on this string. A few facts for those who perceive this as a threat to their favorite hobby: 1. The CP80 Community Port initiative would have absolutely no effect on those like their internet porn and want to keep on consuming it. If it were enacted these freedom loving practioners would not have to change anything. Things would be business as usual, unless of course they were in the habit of practicing their "free-loving" at work while on their employer's computer and internet connection. CP80 would give businesses (who don't want to pay their employees to masturbate on the job)and parents(who don't want delegate their kid's sex education to the Larry Flynt-wannabees of the www)the ability to contact their ISP and "opt out" of the port carrying adult content. 2. The good old US of A still controls the internet through ICANN. Whatever internet policies ICANN lays down, the world follows. The only effect that the proposed legislation will have is to dictate the creation of a community port, and an open port, and then put in place the ability to pull the IP address of any internet publisher who attempts to push adult content through the designated community port. It's the same process used today by ICANN to regulate sites who publish CC numbers or other illegal content. The only difference is that adult content providers would simply be routed out of the community port. 3. No one at CP80 is trying to "draw the line" as to what constitutes "adult content". Those lines already exist in a multitude of places (content filter companies, Google SafeSearch, etc). 4. Whatever your views on porn in general, no right-minded person can say that kids should have ready-access to the kind of crazy crap that is availble on the net today. And before you say it I'm going to cut you off with a statement of unassailable truth, "filters don't work". The CP80 initiative is a pragmatic, realistic and simple solution to a bad problem.