{"id":450,"date":"2003-04-11T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=450"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:19:21","slug":"all_your_pr0n_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/11\/all_your_pr0n_i.html","title":{"rendered":"All your pr0n is belong to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm.  Seems like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/10\/ranting_and_rav.html\">RAVE Act <\/a>wasn&#8217;t the only bit of behind-the-scenes amending to the Amber Alert Bill which Congress did, indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A5176-2003Apr10.html\">pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other bits slipped in, subject to know public hearings or debates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some serious tinkering with federal sentencing guidelines, ostensibly related to child sex offenses, but (depending on who you talk to) possibly further limiting judicial discretion in a number of cases.  Even Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote that the provisions &#8220;would do serious harm to the basic structure of the sentencing guideline system and would seriously impair the ability of courts to impose just and responsible sentences.&#8221;\n<li>It&#8217;s now a crime to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4830-2003Apr10.html\">misleading Internet domain names <\/a>to trick people into seeing obscene material (which is already prohibited) or tricking minors into seeing material &#8220;harmful&#8221; to them.  The text and an analysis of this part can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.blogspot.com\/2003_04_06_volokh_archive.html#200134196\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>The bill also bans the distribution of &#8220;virtual&#8221; child pornography &#8212; legal pornographic images of adults that have been digitally altered to look like children having sex. The Supreme Court already struck down a similar law in the past.<\/ul>\n<p>Regardless of how you feel about the individual provisions, it&#8217;s dirty pool to slip them into a &#8220;national feel-good&#8221; law like the Amber Alert system bill while it&#8217;s in conference committee.  If the idea has merit, it should be debated openly and passed the same way; if it&#8217;s politically difficult to get that done, maybe that&#8217;s a sign the idea shouldn&#8217;t be made into law.<\/p>\n<p>That is sort of how a representative democracy is supposed to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Seems like the RAVE Act wasn&#8217;t the only bit of behind-the-scenes amending to the Amber Alert Bill which Congress did, indeed, pass. 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