FC: Senate follows House, tries "morphed" child porn law v2.0

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 20:23:30 PDT

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    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) press statement:
    http://www.senate.gov/%7Eleahy/press/200205/051502a.html
    
    Note how Leahy (who fancies himself to be a civil libertarian) admits 
    "parts of the bill are closer to the First Amendment line" but exhorts his 
    colleagues to enact it anyway.
    
    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)'s statements:
    http://hatch.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=182786
    http://hatch.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=182787
    
    Hatch describes their "PROTECT" (Prosecutorial Remedies And Tools Against 
    The Exploitation Of Children Today) act thusly:
        Plugs the loophole that exists today where child pornographers can
        escape prosecution by claiming that their sexually explicit material
        did not actually involve real children by allowing the prosecution to
        proceed when the child pornography includes persons who appear
        virtually indistinguishable from actual minors.
    
        Prohibits the pandering or solicitation of anything represented to be
        obscene child pornography.
    
        Prohibits any depictions of minors, or apparent minors, in actual -
        not simulated - acts of bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or
        sexual intercourse, when such depictions lack literary, artistic,
        political or scientific value.
    
        Beefs up existing record keeping requirements for those who chose to
        produce sexually explicit materials.
    
        Creates a new civil action for those aggrieved by the depraved acts of
        those who violate our child pornography laws.
    
    Politech archive on "morphed" child porn laws:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=morphed
    
    -Declan
    
    
    
    
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