Vote about the forums word censors
Moderator: Forum Moderators
- TheSynGame
- Master Sergeant
- Posts: 823
- Joined: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:12 pm
- ZombieSlayer
- Second Lieutenant
- Posts: 2077
- Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:41 pm
Ok I did a brief search through a couple of my favorites and found that I was indeed wrong. It's not against California law, it's against federal law.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/optf/link ... guide.html
From the above link...
So removing the censors and allowing minors to participate in the forums very well could put Joey into some legal troubles.
I was moderating a music forum back in 2004 and it was shut down and the admin/founder was fined $5k in fines because he allowed minors on the site and had no word censors and allowed nudity (which I think carried more weight than the words alone...but still).
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/optf/link ... guide.html
From the above link...
obscene = lewd: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"Whether a reasonable person would find that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
So removing the censors and allowing minors to participate in the forums very well could put Joey into some legal troubles.
I was moderating a music forum back in 2004 and it was shut down and the admin/founder was fined $5k in fines because he allowed minors on the site and had no word censors and allowed nudity (which I think carried more weight than the words alone...but still).
This was overturned two weeks ago - it was all over the major news sources then:ZombieSlayer wrote:Ok I did a brief search through a couple of my favorites and found that I was indeed wrong. It's not against California law, it's against federal law.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/optf/link ... guide.html
From the above link...obscene = lewd: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"Whether a reasonable person would find that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
So removing the censors and allowing minors to participate in the forums very well could put Joey into some legal troubles.
I was moderating a music forum back in 2004 and it was shut down and the admin/founder was fined $5k in fines because he allowed minors on the site and had no word censors and allowed nudity (which I think carried more weight than the words alone...but still).
http://ibtimes.com/articles/20070322/in ... ocking.htmSoftware filters work much better than a 1998 federal law designed to keep pornography away from children on the Internet, a federal judge ruled Thursday in striking down the measure on free-speech grounds.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. also said the Child Online Protection Act fails to address threats that have emerged since the law was written, including online predators on social-networking sites like News Corp.'s MySpace, because it targets only commercial Web publishers..
though this specifically mentions pornography in the article, the law it is referring to is the same on you linked to Zombie.
One final note - why I am I seeing this thread twice?
I will consistently sacrifice political correctness for an attempt at humor. If ya can't deal, then ya need ta stop being ign'ant.

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver
- TheSynGame
- Master Sergeant
- Posts: 823
- Joined: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:12 pm
Here is the story on this from MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17736176/
and from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html
I wanted to provide the stories from the majorly accepted, reputable sources than the obscure link I posted earlier.
Yes, the focus is primarily on pornography, but also covers
Sorry kids, but I don't think my constitutional right to free speech should be trampled just because your parents refuse to take responsibility to what you have access to online.
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17736176/
and from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html
I wanted to provide the stories from the majorly accepted, reputable sources than the obscure link I posted earlier.
Yes, the focus is primarily on pornography, but also covers
again, this is the same law ZombieSlayer referred to in his post.access (to) "harmful" material.
Sorry kids, but I don't think my constitutional right to free speech should be trampled just because your parents refuse to take responsibility to what you have access to online.
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
I will consistently sacrifice political correctness for an attempt at humor. If ya can't deal, then ya need ta stop being ign'ant.

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver
- BaronVonRotterdam
- UT2004 Server Admin
- Posts: 2603
- Joined: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:42 pm
- Location: The Terrible State (New York)
- Contact:
frankly, i fail to see how using 'curse' words shows a group mentality or ignorance. so kindly quit lumping all the common folk in with the rabble.ZombieSlayer wrote:I know a lot of you are immature kids and think it's "cool" to swear, but you really only show how ignorant you are when you follow the crowd.
Man up and think for yourselves.
....you fvcker. :hwsb2:
HOO-RAH! WELL-SAID BOWLS!hwsb wrote:frankly, i fail to see how using 'curse' words shows a group mentality or ignorance. so kindly quit lumping all the common folk in with the rabble.ZombieSlayer wrote:I know a lot of you are immature kids and think it's "cool" to swear, but you really only show how ignorant you are when you follow the crowd.
Man up and think for yourselves.
....you fvcker. :hwsb2:
I will consistently sacrifice political correctness for an attempt at humor. If ya can't deal, then ya need ta stop being ign'ant.

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver

Sig by the awesome AnnaBeaver