Friday, 28. March 2003

US bans sex sites' use of 'innocent' URLs


The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography.

During a debate over a bill to create a notification network for child kidnapping cases, House members added two technology related amendments to the legislation. The first measure, which was approved by voice vote, says anyone who knowingly uses an innocent-sounding domain name to drive traffic to a sex site could be fined and imprisoned for two to four years.

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