One of the reasons that I would find it very hard to support Senator John McCain for president is that he keeps coming up with really dumb legislative ideas. First there was the campaign finance reform debacle that severely restricts Americans' political speech, and now there's his plan to compile a federal database of child pornography.
A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police.The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors. Failure to do would be punished by criminal penalties including fines of up to $300,000.
Great idea! How long will it take for this database to leak out into the hands of the general public, flooding the world with a huge collection of child porn?
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