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Old 06-05-2011, 02:04 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
ok so let say we criminalize the distribution to porn to anyone under the age of 18 with a permenent ban for every selling any content at all forever

you let one kid signup with a stolen credit card you no longer have a right to sell any content every again

you can't register domains
you can sell it on dvd.

you sell to one store that sells to kids you gone

that would match up exactly with what you are talking about

would you advocate that system as agressively as you are advocating a 3 strikes law.
Again, this is not a fair comparison. The reason is this. There is no technology in place that will allow this type of security. In theory you could potentially put something in place that would do this, but it would require a person to surrender so much personal information about themselves that it would be ruled unconstitutional. Also, you want porn sellers to gone after one incident, while my example still allows for a person to accumulate 3 strikes before being banned.

But for the sake of the argument, if there were a legal technology in place that allowed us to be sure that person who was signing up for the site was 18 then I wouldn't have a problem with it so long as there was a reasonable system in place for challenging and enforcing this I would deal with it. If I choose to still stay in the business I would do so knowing full well what the potential consequences might be.
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