New 2257-Related Bill Could Spell Big Trouble for Industry
"WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., this week introduced a bill before Congress that would strengthen the recently amended 2257 record-keeping requirements and heap even more restrictive provisions on the adult entertainment industry.
The bill authorizes forfeiture of assets related to both child pornography and obscenity cases, expands administrative subpoena power in obscenity cases and broadly prohibits the production, transport, distribution and sale of obscene materials.
One area of potential impact is Section 3 of the bill, titled “Strengthening Section 2257 to Ensure that Children Are Not Exploited in the Production of Pornography.”
Language in that section extends enforcement of 2257 to “mere distribution or any other activity that does not involve hiring, contracting for managing or otherwise arranging for the participation of the performers depicted” in pornographic materials. In other words, 2257 would apply to retail stores that previously were exempt from the law.
Pence is linking the bill as an amendment to the Child Safety Act of 2005 to speed its passage and avoid a lengthy committee process.
The bill, said Pence, is designed to “crack down on child pornographers, specifically so-called ‘home pornographers.’”
“We specifically, in my bill, close a loophole that exists in federal law today that allows pornographers who produce child pornography at home with digital cameras, Polaroid cameras, or video cameras, [or who download child pornography] on their home computers, to actually escape prosecution,” Pence said.
Pence, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and a rising star in the Republican party, is no stranger to the anti-adult agenda. In May, XBiz reported that Pence organized a “summit” of Right Wing politicians and lobbyists to discuss strategies for forcibly migrating all sites containing sexually explicit material to a .porn top-level domain.
Conservative groups have hailed the legislation.
“It tightens up the record-keeping requirements of it for sure, and it broadens the kind of material that record-keeping requirements are applied to,” said Benjamin Bull of the Alliance Defense Fund.
Daniel Weiss of Focus on the Family Action added that the bill will give the Justice Department a large hammer to wield against the industry.
“Any one of [the bill’s provisions] may not have immediate large impact, but when you take them together, you’re seeing a significant strengthening of obscenity and child pornography laws,” Weiss said. “I think it’s going to pass Congress, I think the President will sign it into law, and I think it will immediately be challenged in the courts.” "
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It's not the government in general, it's the religious right.
Remember it's the government so far that has upheld our right to free speech.
Please don't give these fanatics more worry then they're worth.
This has been a battle that has been fought since before Larry Flint. This is something that will continue to be fought until the religious rights voice is so small that nobody listens, as it's become in other countries.
Don't forget.. our whole judicial system is full of activist judges that are "to liberal for America" LOL
I agree with not paying the Religious Right too much mind, but at some point I have to ask myself at what cost will I remain detached from it all.
Hey...just an observation, Bush got elected...I keep exhaling in disbelief at how much that guy gets away with.
Is there any question at all that Osama is still no where to be found and that we are still in Iraq, all the while people were perishing in Louisianna because of our Bush's indecision with the Hurricane Katrina.
A Hurricane! We all watched it happen.
We will have lost more people in Hurricane Katrina than in 9/11 and Pearl Harbor Combined: it is estimated by various sources, anywhere from 6,000 to 11,000. Emotionally I physically hurt when I think of those abandoned people who died. I am hurt and enraged at the inaction of a spineless and self serving President.
A lot of what is happening today is fear based and utter propaganda and in direct violation of each American citizens personal rights.
"So what? Nothing will happen...Don't worry they'll balance out in the end?"
Bullshit. It's happening now. I will keep my side of the street clean, but I am not afraid to say what I feel or fight back against thos self righteous zealots. This is the land of legal stipulations and politically warping intentions to serve ones own needs.
The Religious Right will continue to push their legislation through regardless of whether it is justice or not, whether you agree or not.
If I have to buy fucking Birkenstocks and start protesting with the rest of the über green granolla folk, I will, but I will definately have my "Poket Nolo Briefs" book in hand and have a getaway car stashed. Thank the lord I live in San Francisco, the last free city in the United States.
Fuck that Crack-Head Bush:goof: ,
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