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Originally Posted by wmarr
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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC)
The internet is young and the law requires updates in order to give the prosecuting power the tools to do something about criminal activities online.
If I understand it correctly all it says is that you can't link to adult sites saying it is something else. Seems to me that that has nothing to do with free speech.
These things never are a waste of taxpayer funding. Without laws we would still be living in the stone age. But of course, there are quite a lot of flintstones out there.. :)
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I think that the latest responses are getting off the point a bit. Ok.. yes, you can have a porno site.
And Yes, you can "blog" or promote what you would like. But!!! here is the kicker that I feel that this law is attempting to counter. First let me state that I am not a pro web page builder/web programmer, but I do know this much. When you build a web page, and then create a "clickable link or button" you can have that link go to what ever place,page or documentation you would like. And you can NAME that button what ever you would like. This is what got me in the first place. If this "button/link" on the page was written to decribe more info for kids etc,and instead took you to a porn site. Does that not constitute some sort of fraudulent link? So in Response to you Peter, about my son learning and knowing and choosing, then you are a proponent of these fraudulent links and should be treated like all pedefiles out there. You have lost my respect for your "MCI" status and you personally. What I stated about a porno link embedded in page for children, was also just a glimps of what else is out there. Yes, of course when you are searching for something from a search engine, you will get toys -from kids to adults and sex stuff and you must then make your own choice. But you don't seem to get it. I already did my search, opened the page, and the embedded link, that this legislation is about was IN!! the page. But seeing as you are blind or just don't care, I know other readers (millions of them) who are on my side. |
You totally misunderstood what I wrote.
In my opinion it is a good thing to make laws that make it ilegal to link to an adult page saying it is something else.
When somebody clicks on a link in a website he should know upfront where he will be taken. Deceiving kids to end up on adult site is criminal and should be prosecuted.
What I said was that the law needs to be updated so the prosecuters can actually charge people for this type of criminal behaviour.
My remark about free speech was to say that free speech does NOT protect the people that create these fraudulant links.
And making laws is not a waste of taxpayer money! We need laws to regulate society. A law that has the goal to prevent kids from seeing adult sites can not be a waste of money.