Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn 572
Goobergunch and other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizon have agreed to block websites and newsgroups containing child pornography. The deal, brokered by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office threatened the ISPs with fraud charges. It's of some concern that the blacklist of sites and newsgroups is to be maintained by the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an NGO with no legal requirement for transparency. Here are two further cautions, the first from Lauren Weinstein: "Of broader interest perhaps is how much time will pass before 'other entities' demand that ISPs (attempt to) block access to other materials that one group or another feels subscribers should not be permitted to see or hear." And from Techdirt: "[T]he state of Pennsylvania tried to do pretty much the same thing, back in 2002, but focused on actually passing a law ... And, of course, a federal court tossed out the law as unconstitutional. The goal is certainly noble. Getting rid of child porn would be great — but having ISPs block access to an assigned list isn't going to do a damn thing towards that goal."
Child porn (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm
Re:Are you sure? (Score:5, Funny)
"Do you have proof?"
"Why are you asking? You must be looking for child porn! STONE HIM!"
Easy.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's go ahead and get this out of the way (Score:5, Funny)
How the hell do you build this list? (Score:5, Funny)
Government: It has to block child porn.
Me: OK, how do we define child porn?
Government: An adult and a child in sexual acts.
Me: Right, how do we flag that to block it?
Government: *frusterated* You block it!
Me: We need to define a process or this won't work.
Government: We'll make a list then.
Me: So your going to scour the internets for child Porn and add it to this list. Nothing automatic?
Government: Yes
Me: So what venues will you block, HTTP, SSH, FTP, Torrent, MQ, Skype?
Government: All of those things.
Me: You can't decrypt HTTPS or SSH traffic, how do you know it's child porn?
Government: Because we know those servers have porn since some guy flagged it.
Me: You've heard of dynamic IP's right?
Government: *MAD* DO WHAT WE SAY OR WE KILL THE BUNNY.
Me: Um.... do it.
Re:What's going to be the first false positive? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How the hell do you build this list? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are you sure? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not that I read TFA, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? I want this technology in my fucking camera phone. Then I can point it at a chick and find out if she's over 18 or not.
Re:Not that I read TFA, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Child porn (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are you sure? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Child porn is NOT the problem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Child porn is NOT the problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not that I read TFA, but... (Score:5, Funny)
18? That's way too inflexible.
The phone should have a internationalization feature so that using GPS and an online database it will figure out the age of consent wherever you are, where you're from, and all the relevant laws.
Re:Are you sure? (Score:1, Funny)
and you should repaint that van of yours..