Yonah Russ wrote: > This law isn't stopping anyone who already legally has the right to > look at porn from looking at porn. Sure it does! For one thing, porn is not illegal today. > It just requires them to prove that they have the right. Which is a way of stopping. Saying "you can't do X unless you do Y" hinders the possibility of doing X. Being as it is that the law does not properly define what porn is, and the actual real life will be that non-port WILL get categorized as porn, this is a significant hinderence. Like I said elsewhere, the question is not even about port in particular, but about whatever gets categorized as "porn" by whatever software being used at the time. > I don't see requiring to identify yourself before watching porn as any > different from requiring a license for driving. Show me who you are likely to kill if you watch porn without a license, and we'll be able to discuss the analogy further. > This isn't about censoring the internet. That is PRECISELY what this is about. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/censoring: > to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered > objectionable
> This is about censoring the internet from children. and from people who don't want to identify themselves using biometrics, and from people who cannot afford the biometric equipment. > I don't know any child that can't live without a slightly smaller > internet. Or any internet at all. Or, for that matter, a cell phone. Or, for that matter, a car. In fact, all a child really needs in order to live is food and a place to sleep. Let's block everything else. > As I've said in other parts of this thread I think this law has a > major advantage in that it will block access from anywhere- But why porn, and not anything else you, personally, may find objectionable? This is, in essence, you saying I should pay extra, let go of my anonymity and have extra burden placed on me merely because you can't control what your children do when they are not home. Not a good trade off, in my view. > This law ensures (hopefully) that every access to adult content will > be made by adults. What about false negatives? > If a parent really want's they're kids looking at porn sites, they'll > give them their password. and their fingers? The law talks about biometric identification! And, besides, I don't want my kids to go to porn sites. I want them to go wherever they want, porn or not. I cannot do that with this law, because they have to have my specific permission. > -Yonah Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
