07 Feb 2007
Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images

Political grandstanding? Who knows, but this bit of boneheadedness would certainly chip away at our few remaining liberties. Note that it's already mandatory for ISP's to report kiddie porn - this bill goes a lot further. For example, all all of these girls over 18? Who has their age statements on file? And isn't that a depiction of bestiality?

My point is that we should tread very gingerly when declaring whole classes of images to be "illegal", lest we throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Proposal from Sen. John McCain would force Internet providers to report illegal images, even "cartoons."

(link) [CNET News.com]

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