Redding California

I've been working around the clock for a week to make some of my less than savory websites not be in violation of the vague, shortsighted, and overreaching DOJ 2257 regulations that went into effect on June 23rd. There is a temporary injunction for members of a group called the free speech coalition, but the rest of us could face 5 year prison sentence if we are charged and convicted with non compliance.

I know many of you have children, and while the new regulations appear to be in the best interest children and at a cursory glance supported by the general public, they are really just political grandstanding that will do nothing to solve the problem child pornography. They will however, place a great deal of potential harm to adults of free will.

(1) The sick people who create and distribute CP do not follow existing laws and generally do not use websites as a means of distribution.

(2) The regulations are vague. If someone here were to post an image in this forum deemed explicit by the vague definitions and I personally didn't have all the proper documentation, this would put me as the webmaster in violation of the laws. Penalties of 5 years in prison, plus having the the honorary title of "convicted sex offender" to my name.

(3) Content producers have already been required, with good reason, to maintain the existing documents for over 10 years. Requiring "secondary producers" (read: webmasters, surfers, anyone posting a picture on the internet) is redundant and vague. This is akin to requiring car dealerships to keep and analyze all technical and engineering specs of every car they sell and then holding them responsible for faulty manufacturing just in case Ford installed another exploding gas tank.

(4) Requiring content producers to provide a model's complete identification documents to secondary producers is dangerous. Anyone scraping together 20 bucks to buy a set of content would then have a models birth name, home address,driver's license number, etc. Stalkers rejoice.

(5) A majority of people who purchase porn are from the US. Since these laws only apply to US Citizens and content hosted on servers in the US, you will see a larger number of porn sites coming from foreign countries. Essentially, another US industry will be outsourced.

This comes from a biased source, but even ASACP agrees that the new regulations will do nothing to fight child pornography.
http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=9271

While my side business may cast me in a negative light, it is nobody else's business. I only bring it up because I consider this a serious attack on all of our freedoms by an administration that claims to be defending it.
Criminalizing law abiding adults is not the way to fight crime.

Here are some other links on the issue.
http://www.fight2257.com/