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July 26, 2005

Use a fake domain name get 10 years

The Children's Safety Act (introduced in the House) would extend the penalty for "using misleading domain names to direct children to harmful material on the internet" to between 10 and 30 years. [click and then go to Title IV) I understand that everyone wants to look tough on pornography, but we're going to lock someone up for 10 years for using a misleading domain name? For reference, the penalty for rape in California is between 3 and 8 years ( California Penal Code S261(a)

UPDATE: Replaced specific permalinks which don't work with annoying general permalinks which do. Thanks, legislative search interfaces!

Posted by ekr at July 26, 2005 10:03 PM | Filed under:

Comments

First link is broken and I really would like to read what's behind that :-)

Second link leads to an empty document?

Posted by: Marcos at July 27, 2005 4:18 AM

Fortunately, this probably applies: http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am8.html

Posted by: Craig Hughes at August 7, 2005 7:53 PM