(Beware)
Conservatives (with an apparent theocratic/Religious Right bent) are taking the "offensive" (at least what
they think of as offensive
)... off the net.
That is, with the coming of 18 U.S.C. 2257 (the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, as amended) we now have a real roadblock to Free Speech (particularly of the adult image variety). If you partake of such, you may well find it more difficult to make a choice if you attempt to review adult DVDs online, from a U.S. company anyway.
Not to worry... Oppression and repression go hand in hand (which is probably a banned form of contact), and are coming closer by the day. No problem right? All you have to do is conform to someone else's code of conduct (who knows you might even agree--the thing is, not everyone does--which means their rights are being infringed). So go, and
sin 
no more... (or stand up for the right of free speech :!
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Quote:
Cracking Down on Porn: Protecting Children or Naked Censorship?
by Alex Coolman, editor at large
Lawyers for the adult entertainment industry are gearing up for a legal battle against expanded record-keeping regulations that are set to go into effect June 23. The rules, which are referred to as the 2257 regulations because they come from 18 U.S.C. 2257 (the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, as amended), set new standards that producers and handlers of adult material must adhere to in maintaining files documenting that their models are adults rather than children.
The Free Speech Coalition, which advocates for the roughly $10 billion porn industry, depicted the stricter rules as a toothy and menacing shark in its January newsletter and declared that "the adult industry simply cannot live with these new regulations." An op-ed by the group's executive director, Michelle Freridge, cautioned that "we are in imminent danger of widespread prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice" as a result of the 2257s.
That something as humdrum as a record-keeping rule could provoke such concern is due both to the potentially severe penalties for those who fail to comply with the requirements and the broad reach of the regulations. Violations of the regs carry up to a five year prison term for a first offense and up to ten years for subsequent offenses. The rules apply retroactively to all content created after July 3, 1995. And the new rules apply not only to primary producers of adult images but also to "secondary producers," such as websites that syndicate content from third parties.
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For more information, or to support your national adult entertainment industry, go to
Free Speech Coalition - Freedom Isn't Free!
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As if making impossibly complex (and humanly impossible; thereby successfully albeit indirectly obstructing) record keeping requirements regulations backed up by
severe federal criminal penalties weren't enough, the Bush Administration has formed an
"Obscenity Task Force" to stamp out all those offensive sexually suggestive images (to make the internet safe for all the little children in whom sexual inhibitions are being carefully indoctrinated)(sexual repression
rules!)...
Justice Department Announces Formation of Obscenity Task Force
By: Mark Kernes
5-6-2005
WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray announced Thursday that the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is establishing an Obscenity Prosecution Task Force dedicated exclusively to the investigation and prosecution of obscenity cases.
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