Comments on: Senators OK $1 billion for online child porn fight

Bill, which awaits floor vote, would encourage investigators to comb peer-to-peer networks for illegal images and would rewrite laws to ban Webcasts depicting child abuse.

[jzumbie]

1 in 4 women are raped in their lifetime before their teen years.... This is VERY pervasive... and if you ask any foster parent that fosters youth who have been molested... frequently it is tied to drugs; but the abuse is the hardest part to get over it scars the kids for life!

[Jeema]

It seems to me that a good portion of this is most likely just moral panic and pandering to people's fears. Ask yourself this: are our lawmakers basing their laws on sound scientific facts and prudent reasoning, or are they legislating based on fear and emotion? Where are the facts in all this anyway? Leaders who legislate based on fear and emotion and hearsay are not leaders at all...rather they are followers and demagogues and do not deserve to be in office.

[Had_to_be_said]

If you actually think this is about "child porn", then you really are seriously dim-witted. Frankly, the powers that be have claimed that "p2p" is directly linked to everything from "terrorism", to "spying", to "illegal drugs", to "hacking". And they have repeatedly ended-up screaming about, "child abuse" every time their, self-serving, entirely-deceptive rants (about the need to monitor, and absolutely-control, all Internet-use) have become nothing more than, mostly-ignored, background-noise. It should also be noted that it was actually the -RIAA- that first began espousing this exact same anti-p2p BS (before Congress) when they [the record companies] were desperately trying to get ALL "P2P" applications, legally, shut-down... by Federal-Law, a few years ago. Make no mistake, this is actually about creating far greater corporate, and Government, control over all computer-users... the Internet in general... and, more specifically, about effectively quashing ALL "p2p" use. Frankly, this is the oldest set of political-tactics in the book: 1st... Demonize what you want to get rid of (by linking it, in peoples minds, to something really nasty). 2nd... Terrorize people with "the problem". And, 3rd. offer a solution... which just so happens... will get rid of the actual target. The simple truth is that there are only three groups that support this: -Those that know, full-well, that "child porn" is nothing more than a convenient smokescreen, which is being used to indirectly accomplish their actual goals. -Those that see a personal-gain (I.E. political-gain, and/or, monetary-gain) in supporting this nonsense. -And, finally, those simpletons that actually ARE dumb enough to be swayed by the perennial tyrants-cry, "...wont somebody think of the children..!"

[DrYagokoro]

I agree this is nothing more then a smoke screen took me only 5 seconds to see the real purpose this is the same crap they tried to and failed to pass under TIA.
So they just come up with a new excuse and smoke screen since people saw through the war on terror.
They are banking on the puritan types being gullible enough to push for it.

[johnalphonse-22167694933540745]

Agreed as well that this is NOT where the money belongs because the problem has been off-line for decades (centuries?). This should be addressed in the real world and the internet not used as a scapegoat and raison d'etre for increased public surveillance. SAY NO TO THIS BILL, and YES to more emphasis and education on the horrors of child sex abuse.

[DrYagokoro]

This is a total waste of money for two reasons and NASA could have used that 1B.
One this is just an excuse to spy on us all as they'll just steal internet access off other people's wifi.
Two the real problem is the people who make this stuff.
That billion USD would have done a lot more good if it was spent on welfare or education what a waste.
Or NASA could have used it to accelerate Orion they can have that flying by 2013 for only an extra 2B.
The enitre NASA COTS project is only 500 million imagine the cool stuff we could have in COTS for an extra billion?
This is a complete travesty also total bullsh-t and reason as to why we need to remove the conservatives from power.
The real purpose of this program is to be able to spy on everyone not just so called pedos
they failed to pass laws to do wide spread psying under the excuse of looking for terrorists so they just came up with a new excuse.
We need to say no to such things and look beyond the media hype and excuses.
Another waste of money real-ID projected to cost the states over 250Billion being a government bureaucracy project expect it to be double even triple that.

[coolroser]

Hi,

Child pornography means a visual representation of the person who are under 18 and involved in sexual activities.it a crime. there must be some laws made to stop this crime. the people engaged in this crime must get imprisonment. i agree that every person has the right to live their own life but they must follow the laws.

Rose
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[Emanuel_Y]

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