Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must slap warning labels on their pages or face prison terms of up to 15 years, according to a proposal adopted by a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday.
During a day of debate on a wide-ranging communications bill, the Senate Commerce Committee approved an amendment backed by the Bush administration that proponents claim would help clean up the Internet and protect children online.
It says that commercial Web sites must not place “sexually explicit material” on their home pages upon pain of felony prosecution–and, in addition, they must rate “each page or screen of the website that does contain sexually explicit material” with a system to be devised by the Federal Trade Commission.
“This will protect children from accidentally typing in the wrong address and immediately viewing indecent material,” said Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican who is the co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus.
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Can someone tell me how this will protect children from predators? Predators are going on sites that kids visit not on porn sites are they going to be raiting sites like myspace and such mature.
I swear this countries politics get dumber by the day. I wish I could pull the originators of the constitution out the grave and let them go postal on these people.