federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby"

[swedguy]

Does that mean you have to promote Lanny Barbie as "Lanny Bar*ie" from now?

[Useless]

"America's children will be better protected from every parent's worst nightmare--sexual predators--thanks to passage" of the legislation, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a statement on Tuesday.

In addition, the Child Protection and Safety Act, or Walsh Act (named for Adam Walsh, who was abducted and murdered in 1981 at 6 years old), would:

• Force sex offenders to provide a DNA sample, a requirement that many states already have adopted.

• Create a national sex offender registry to be run by the FBI, with "relevant information" on each person. It's supposed to permit geographical lookups based on ZIP code.

Well, that's not scary. |shocking|

I'd like to believe that they really mean to go after those who intentionally use those types of words to lure in every possible surfer, but I fear that the U.S. govt won't stop there.

That's it - I'm going to work at Wal-Mart.

[bartjes]

A key phrase in the legislation (click for PDF) promises prison time only if a Webmaster has the "intent to deceive" a casual visitor.

Now there's a comferting thought for you guys...
Boy am I glad to be living across the ocean!

Maybe they should also ban the word crime, then we all would be protected from it for ever!

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'd like to believe that they really mean to go after those who intentionally use those types of words to lure in every possible surfer, but I fear that the U.S. govt won't stop there.

Yeah, I'm having trouble trying to setup a PPC SE campaign because they won't allow non-adult words to be used for flagged adult sites. So they are disallowing searches for "X+Y+Z" where the adult domain name is XYZ.com

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by swedguy

Does that mean you have to promote Lanny Barbie as "Lanny Bar*ie" from now?

Fuck!

And in California we can already look up sex offenders by area. I put in my buddies address and sent him a screenshot of his house absolutely surrounded by them. It was comedy gold.