Podcast highlights: Is Web labeling the answer?

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Will Congress go along with the White House's call for mandatory Web labeling? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is urging a rating system to prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet..It's Earth day on Saturday but the tech industry's not going to win any awards for cleaning up e-waste....Question: Why is President Bush traveling to Cisco? Answer: It has nothing to do with routers.

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[nicmart]

Congress shall make no law ...

But that was when the constitution held promise, not now that it is
an experiment that fails. Only the will of the citizens prevents a
country from becoming despotic, and Americans have no such will.

[Soupir]

Who are you again?

You must not be an American, nicmart.

And if you are, it's plain you are the one without will. This is all part of the constitutionally protected debate to protect, regulate, or give greater freedom to the potential risks and glorious advantages of new technology. You are like a frumpy doomsday hitchhiker whining on the side of the information superhighway. Go stick your thumb somewhere else.

Yawn.

[Ipod Apple]

experiment that fails

http://www.analogstereo.com/vauxhall_corsa_owners_manual.htm

[No_Man]

Yes and no...

The federal government has the Constitutionally defined power
to regulate interstate commerce. This umbrella has been abused
countless times in the past, but this might be one case when it
can be applied appropriately. The purchase of domain names,
publishing of web content, income produced by ads, and
commerce conducted in online stores are all legitimate forms of
interstate commerce that no state government could ever hope
to regulate independently, and the Constitution hands it over to
the federal government for exactly that reason.

That said, it's a pointless endeavor. The internet is an
international entity, and U.S. laws are worthless outside our
borders. You'd end up with a legal nightmare whenever you had
a content provider or server outside of the U.S. As much as he'd
like to think otherwise, Gonzales cannot legislate the entire
planet.

[nicmart]

Congress shall make no law ...

But that was when the constitution held promise, not now that it is
an experiment that fails. Only the will of the citizens prevents a
country from becoming despotic, and Americans have no such will.

[No_Man]

Yes and no...

The federal government has the Constitutionally defined power
to regulate interstate commerce. This umbrella has been abused
countless times in the past, but this might be one case when it
can be applied appropriately. The purchase of domain names,
publishing of web content, income produced by ads, and
commerce conducted in online stores are all legitimate forms of
interstate commerce that no state government could ever hope
to regulate independently, and the Constitution hands it over to
the federal government for exactly that reason.

That said, it's a pointless endeavor. The internet is an
international entity, and U.S. laws are worthless outside our
borders. You'd end up with a legal nightmare whenever you had
a content provider or server outside of the U.S. As much as he'd
like to think otherwise, Gonzales cannot legislate the entire
planet.

[Soupir]

Who are you again?

You must not be an American, nicmart.

And if you are, it's plain you are the one without will. This is all part of the constitutionally protected debate to protect, regulate, or give greater freedom to the potential risks and glorious advantages of new technology. You are like a frumpy doomsday hitchhiker whining on the side of the information superhighway. Go stick your thumb somewhere else.

Yawn.

[Ipod Apple]

experiment that fails

http://www.analogstereo.com/vauxhall_corsa_owners_manual.htm