"COPA" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

National Take Your Child To Work Day is right around the corner. But if you work in certain industries such as the adult Industry, forget about bringing the kids to work. Interesting enough the adult industry is not headliner of worst places to take a child during National Take Your Child To Work Day.

The Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court decision that ruled the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) unconstitutional. The Supreme Court stopped the law from taking effect in 2002 and again in 2004 when it was ruled that the law would restrict adult access to constitutionally protected material.

Assuming President Bush signs the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, S. 17 as planned, ISPs will shoulder the responsibility of policing 'hash marks' of known child pornography content.

Robul Hoque has become the first person in the UK to be sentenced for viewing obscene images that were created by virtual reality rendering software. Although the pictures were animated, cartoons, and virtually generated, much of the content was in relation to a child abuse fantasy that was very realistic and therefore deemed obscene; thus Hoque was sentenced to 18 months community service.

A new report by a Canadian website highlights the dangers our first amendment rights face with the current onslaught of anti-porn legislation being pushed by right wing political interests under the guise of clamping down on child porn.

While in America, cops, lawyers, and even judges are generally barred from viewing child porn, even in the name of enacting justice against those charged with creating the illicit material.

A 15 year old girl in Ohio is facing two felony sex offender charges for sending nude pictures of herself to friends via her cell phone's text messaging service. While the pictures were self-portraits, so to speak, she still faces charges of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, a second-degree felony; and possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony.

Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Trustworthy Computing, explains that his company is diligently assessing the benefits and practicality of implementing an identity verification system that is tied to existing governmentally administered ID systems such as your driver's license or social security card.

While traditional party politics seem to show that Democrats are more sympathetic to the plights of porn consumers and producers, this group seems to be focused on the real issue that everyone can agree to when it comes to regulating porn: protecting children. It is understandable under this context that porn is in fact bipartisan, an idea espoused by this two person interest group.

While this is not meant as a substitution for sound legal advice, anyone operating an adult webmaster should be aware of several common strategies for complying with laws and regulations tied to keeping kids out of your adult website.