{"id":98,"date":"2006-06-17T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.globaladultmedia.com\/2006\/17\/proposed-legislation-will-require-labels-for-sex-sites\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T03:16:55","slug":"proposed-legislation-will-require-labels-for-sex-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Legislation Will Require Labels for Sex Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Legislation Will Require Labels for Sex Sites<br \/>\nBy: Ericka Rachelle<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avnonline.com\/articles\/269890.html\"rel=\"external nofollow\">From AVNOnline<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. Senate is proposing a new law that will affect owners and operators of websites that contain sexually explicit content.<\/p>\n<p> According to the bill, known as Stop Adults\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Facilitation of the Exploitation of Youth Act, or Internet Safety Act, sites would have to post warning labels on each offending page; those who fail to comply with the law would face severe prison sentences and fines triple to those that exist within the current law.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-page proposed law concentrates on new penalties related to child pornography and online sexual content. Penalties will be increased from the Justice Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original proposal. Site owners failing to comply with the new laws could face up to 15 years in prison for some offenses and up to 20 years for others, including those who knowingly imbed words or images in source codes in an attempt to attract minors into viewing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153harmful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d content. In addition, ISPs failing to report child pornography sightings on their networks will have to pay $150,000 for the first violation and $300,000 thereafter. Site operators who fail to place \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clearly identifiable marks or notices\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will also face the 15 year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The increase in Internet use has given sexual predators new ways to prey on children. This bill, among other things, is intended to shut down these opportunities, and severely punish the degraded individuals who are involved in the sexual exploitation of our youth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The senator is one of eight members of the Republican Party who introduced the bill this week.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the broad definitions of what the Internet Safety Act deems as sexually explicit, anything from masturbation to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lascivious exhibition of the pubic area,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d many free speech advocates have been quick to criticize the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Obviously we are concerned about seemingly punitive laws as this one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Tom Hymes, communications director for the Free Speech Coalition. At press time, the FSC was researching the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<p>One exception to the controversial bill will not require large websites to be labeled if there exists a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153small and insignificant part\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of sexual content. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Legislation Will Require Labels for Sex Sites By: Ericka Rachelle From AVNOnline WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. Senate is proposing a new law that will affect owners and operators of websites that contain sexually explicit content. According to the bill, known as Stop Adults\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Facilitation of the Exploitation of Youth Act, or Internet Safety Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladultmedia.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}