McCain battles the bloggers
As someone with great respect for John McCain, I was extremely disappointed to learn about some of the details in his proposed legislation Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act. While I believe his intentions are good, those good intentions gets lost in the details.
From News.com:
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.
Basically what the legislation says is that as bloggers, we can be held responsible for the comments that are left on our blogs. I’d be curious to se some example of types of comments that a blogger could be liable for.
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December 17th, 2006 at 7:42 am
More pertinently, I think, it would completely break the likes of LiveJournal and MySpace which are impossible to police to that kind of degree.
Will people please stop thinking about the bloody children all the time?
December 17th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Chertoff referring to the internet as a training ground for homegrown terrorists is a bit misleading as well.
Then the presidents father even attacked bloggers the other night on CNN, makes one wonder what the agenda against bloggers really is?
December 17th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
it would destroy places like MySpace and LiveJournal and also really kill the open communication that has been just growing over the past couple of years.