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News: Dateline Says Porn is 'Legal,' Christians Beg to Differ |
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Anonymous writes "''I can't help wondering whether the hosts and reporters on 'news programs' like Dateline just don't do their homework or are so driven by ideology that they knowingly say things that aren't true.'' -- Robert Peters
On Aug. 5, NBC TV's Dateline aired a segment "On The Hunt" that looked at the invasion of unwanted ads for Internet pornography, where Dateline reporter John Hockenberry said the porn invasion is "legal."
Porn spam is not legal, however, and the Can Spam Act of 2003 was enacted to control the flow of non-solicited pornography and marketing.
Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, a ministry that works to curb pornographic content, said in a statement, "I can't help wondering whether the hosts and reporters on 'news programs' like Dateline just don't do their homework or are so driven by ideology that they knowingly say things that aren't true."
The Act prohibits emails with false or misleading information, and deceptive subjects headings, without a functioning return electronic mail address, and without a valid physical postal address. Messages cannot be sent to recipients whose addresses were obtained in a manner prohibited by the Act, sent using an unauthorized computer, or sent to those who never requested the emails. Porn spammers violate all of these provisions.
Hockenberry also interviewed a "full-time spam fighter" who said that if the porn spammer is based in the U.S., "all he has to do is write the phrase 'sexually oriented' on the mail and it's all perfectly legal."
Peters said, "Yes, a subsection of the Act requires placement of the words 'sexually explicit' in specified areas in the email. But that subsection also prohibits 'sexually oriented material' in the initially viewable area."
This follows on the heels of the Office of the Attorney General's crackdown on illegal pornographers.
The problem, said Daniel Weiss, Senior Analyst for Media and Sexuality, Focus on the Family is not the lack of laws, but "Enforcing the laws we have on the books."
"Much of pornography or hardcore material that is shown is considered obscene material by law… and that's illegal," said Daniel Weiss, Senior Analyst for Media and Sexuality, Focus on the Family. "If we simply enforce the law, it would have a significant effect."
To Weiss, current legislation opens way for a "crackdown" on illegal pornography, which makes up a majority of the $57 billion dollar industry - which is even bigger than the professional sports industry - according to a new book, Battle Cry for a Generation by President of Teen Mania, Ron Luce.
Pat Trueman, senior legal counsel for the Family Research Council to FOTF speculated that "[Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is] going to go after pornographers who are violating the law across the board, and I think you're going to see this all unfold in the next couple years — and you're going to get a lot of convictions." "
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Posted on Thursday, August 11 @ 10:50:30 MDT by ArCh_AnGeL
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