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US Law would stop metatag abuse by porn sites

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will push for new legislation that requires all commercial Web sites to label every page that includes adult material in an effort to protect Web users from pornography. The proposed law is called "Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006" and would prohibit commercial Web sites from initially displaying sexually explicit material without further action, such as an additional click. The DOJ initiative would also make it illegal for a person to knowingly deceive others into viewing obscene materials. This could effect the use of metatags, cloaking, doorway pages or other search engine manipulation methods that are used by e.g. some porno-sites that try to lure people to their sites although they are searching for "innocious content" like toy names or popular film stars.

  • McCullagh, Declan, Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law, CNet:
    "Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday."

 

 

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