Interesting child porn development

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is anyone on the list interested in following this?  If so please let me 
know.  Otherwise, I'll go off to write letters by myself.  I'm sort of 
posting under the assumption that others might be intrested in 
participating.

Apparently Pennsylvania has decided to try blocking child porn sites as a 
technique to stop the trade.  Here are excerpts from the AP article.  It's 
possible that objections from ISPs have a financial basis.


WASHINGTON - Pennsylvania is forcing Internet providers to block Web sites 
that include child pornography, a new legal strategy that technology and 
civil liberties experts worry will unintentionally interfere with legitimate 
surfing.

In a precursor to a possible courtroom challenge, lawyers from the Center 
for Democracy and Technology will try to compel Pennsylvania's attorney 
general to disclose new details about the state's tactics.  They are worried 
other states may follow Pennsylvania's practice.

<snip>

World.com lawyers, while saying they abhor child pornography, had objected 
that filters placed on behalf of Pennsylvania citizens would affect all 
their subscribers in North Anerica from visiitng thousands of Web sites 
"completely unrelated in content and ownership" to the pornographic 
material.

Lawyers for the civil liberties group and some technology experts said the 
strategy undermines the Internet's global connectivity by regularly blocking 
Web surfers visiting harmless sites that may be located on the same server 
conputers as sites with child pornography.


keets

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