Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.
technically it's already illegal for people to post copyrighted images on 4chan
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Anonymous2006-12-10 20:05
A) Keeping kids away from pedofags is a worthwhile goal,
but
B) Pedofags may have things to say other than stuff that got them into trouble to begin with (for example, if they're not trying to lure kids or post kiddie porn, but they're trying to say something about environmentalism or traffic jams on the highway, then they aren't doing anything wrong and section 7 of the bill winds up becoming censorship).
and
C) Forcing owners of small websites to report pedofaggery may require them to spend time they don't have, because they have day jobs and work to do. Major websites, however, wouldn't have such a problem, because there's enough effort being poured into them by enough people. The effect could potentially be censorship of websites that banned pedofaggery to begin with.
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Anonymous2006-12-10 21:03
So I guess this means imageboards will be no more? Hooray text boards!
I'd like to know how they're going to enforce that law outside the US.
Maybe 4chan's servers should really be moved to Mootxico?
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Pedofags are Morons2006-12-11 9:57
>>12 Pedofags is illegitimate sexualists, in my definition. There are pedofags posting on the image boards and catching the rest of us unawares. CUT IT OUT. We don't want your kind posting loli and trying to get non-pedofag people in trouble. (And by loli I mean underage, rather than what the word SHOULD be used for, which is "people dressed in frilly Victorian clothes"). I assume all posts of pictures to be age 18 and up unless otherwise said. Unfortunately, some people happen to be posting loli, which is unacceptable. Thanks for listening, bye