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Won't help

I agree that a law like this is needed to put something on the books paying lip service to helping protect kids from accidentally seeing pornographic content (adult sites are required to have an age disclaimer before you can see inappropriate material). However, I know it won't actually help very much at all.

While it may get some US spammers to comply, not all of them follow the law. Furthermore, most or all foreign ones will thumb their nose at it and just go right on spamming. The FTC has no jurisdiction over those ones, and the only other choices would be diplomatic pressure on their home nations (not likely to help much either), or filtering all Internet traffic coming into the US (a VERY bad idea).

Unfortunately, it's the nature of the beast, and parents will just have to be more diligent at monitoring their kids' Web and e-mail usage.

Posted by: doctormoriarty   Posted on: 01/29/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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