BDSM Webmasters : Keep Your Sites Clean
» Civil Liberties
If you don’t run your own websites I hope you’ve made sure there are no dangerous words and phrases buried on your pages:
The US has passed legislation which controls what website operators are allowed to put in their site meta tags. The law bans the use of words which might lead anyone to obscene content.
Meta tag abusers face 20 years in prison
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like “Barbie” or “Furby” but actually feature sexual content on their sites.
Anyone who includes misleading “words” or “images” intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says.
Congress spanks naughty sex sites
As for directing porn toward children, I honestly couldn’t fathom a website owner who could be dumber. Kids don’t have credit cards and no adult website owner in their right mind wants kids eating up their bandwidth. Please tell me what could adult site owners possibly gain from attracting children to their site.
In response to the growing problem of commercial child pornography and the exploitation of children online, the bill increases the number of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces across the nation.
But this puts those of us who engage in consensual, often loving BDSM relationships and write about it on the web at risk.
Last week I was reading a book on FBI monitoring of authors. I remember that in the case of John Kenneth Galbraith an economics told an FBI investigator that Galbraith was “doctinaire.” His file subsequently listed a mysterious “Dr. Ware” who was to be watched for.
I write on the web for self-exploration and to help others find emotionally healthy ways of dealing with their kinks. But months ago I removed some - to me innocent - illustrations from a purely personal site. I knew what wicked interpretations the dull, average majority could give them.
Be careful, wary and circumspect lest your words be turned against you.