Fri, 04 Apr 2003

Blocking Itself

Child Porn Law Creates Catch-22. Pennsylvania is using its law against distributing child pornography to force ISPs to block access to hundreds of websites. The state attorney general refuses to disclose which sites have been blocked, however, because doing so would itself be disseminating such pornography, which is illegal. [Wired News]

Unbelieveable ..... who's running the Pennsylvania legislature, anyway? Abbot and Costello?

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