The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, AKA, HR4472
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 includes a cunning Conservative Ploy to once again limit your freedom of speech.
Mr. Bush signed the law on July 21st of this year in order to commemorate the murder of Adam Walsh. Adam Walsh was 6 years old; when on July 27, 1981 he was kidnapped and subsequently murdered. The boy’s severed head was discovered two weeks later, but the body was never recovered. A history of botched confessions and lost evidence has prevented the conviction of Adam’s possible murderer, serial killer Ottis Toole. The law provides for a national registry of sex offenders, a good thing. Additionally, it aims to curb child pornography, another laudable goal.
However, the law also includes provisions that require almost any picture of a nude person posted on line be tracked and that secondary producers keep personal information on the model and person(s) posting for government reference. Within the structure of the law artworks that include nudes, family photographs of semi nude and nude children, and personal blogs that contain these become legitimate targets for Federal government interference, and the possible accusation, and conviction of individuals not associated with child pornography in any way. Thus the law as written by Congress and signed by this President purposefully conflates* artwork and individual personal photographs with child pornography, murder, and serial killers.
For more information on how you can fight misguided censorship, go to The Free Speech Coalition where you can download a “pdf” file of The Adam Walsh Protection and Safety Act, also known as HR4472.
* To join various things together into a unified whole.
Mr. Bush signed the law on July 21st of this year in order to commemorate the murder of Adam Walsh. Adam Walsh was 6 years old; when on July 27, 1981 he was kidnapped and subsequently murdered. The boy’s severed head was discovered two weeks later, but the body was never recovered. A history of botched confessions and lost evidence has prevented the conviction of Adam’s possible murderer, serial killer Ottis Toole. The law provides for a national registry of sex offenders, a good thing. Additionally, it aims to curb child pornography, another laudable goal.
However, the law also includes provisions that require almost any picture of a nude person posted on line be tracked and that secondary producers keep personal information on the model and person(s) posting for government reference. Within the structure of the law artworks that include nudes, family photographs of semi nude and nude children, and personal blogs that contain these become legitimate targets for Federal government interference, and the possible accusation, and conviction of individuals not associated with child pornography in any way. Thus the law as written by Congress and signed by this President purposefully conflates* artwork and individual personal photographs with child pornography, murder, and serial killers.
For more information on how you can fight misguided censorship, go to The Free Speech Coalition where you can download a “pdf” file of The Adam Walsh Protection and Safety Act, also known as HR4472.
* To join various things together into a unified whole.
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