Thursday, October 05, 2006
Stiff prison penalties for bad web coding in USA
Meta tag abusers face 20 years in prison
"Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 10 years," says the bill.
IMO: So now you know. But this could also have a substantial effect on search engine firms and commercial advertisers. Obviously it could also unreasonably infringe civil liberties, and even personal bloggers and practical jokers. I suppose we have to wait to see how the law is applied. 'Hard cases make bad law' but US case law seems full of that. Bear in mind also varying definitions of obscenity. I am not sure whether pictures of the 'great prophet' qualify.
"Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 10 years," says the bill.
IMO: So now you know. But this could also have a substantial effect on search engine firms and commercial advertisers. Obviously it could also unreasonably infringe civil liberties, and even personal bloggers and practical jokers. I suppose we have to wait to see how the law is applied. 'Hard cases make bad law' but US case law seems full of that. Bear in mind also varying definitions of obscenity. I am not sure whether pictures of the 'great prophet' qualify.
# posted by uv : 12:35 AM
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