The revised Hatch "child porn" legislation criminalizes even *attempting* to download the forbidden data. And has two definitions of child porn that create a kind of legal buffet for prosectors' delectation. -Declan On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
Even here in the United States, connecting to an illegal site may mean imprisonment. (The charge: trafficking in child pornography, for example.)
Rather than saying such laws are "meaningless," developing blinded, steganographic, etc. proxies may be a more useful strategy.
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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