John McCain, crusader against child porn and the blogosphere in general

[elbales]

Here's an excerpt of a posting from thinkprogress.org, ganked from the lovely kiri_l.

John McCain’s War On Blogs
[brief excerpt]
John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere. Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:
– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”

– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.

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Bitch, please. Some of these sites run on a shoestring. How are they supposed to pay for this kind of monitoring?

God. The 109th Congress really pisses me off. They play the child porn card while ignoring the real work. GO DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE, YOU DUMB FUCKS. Like... work on fixing Medicare! Jesus.
 

Comments

[leethomps.livejournal.com]

McCain is such a fascist.

I think the 109th Congress is a write off; I think they'll just try to do as much additional damage as they can before the 110th.