DMOZ Supports Child Porn?

From the slashdot post gworld cites:

 

It is sort of funny how high these companies jump on the sexual predator issue when the lawsuits start hitting the news and when NBC has a prime time hit TV show on the subject

It is not really hard to predict the future, everything follows the same pattern in America, businesses build cash flow, people start getting hurt by those businesses, the media sells copies of the story and then the lawyers swoop in to get theirs!

It's all about money folks, lawyers, guns and money

 

That articles has many interesting parts, for example:

"AOL chief counsel John Ryan said the coalition was partly a response to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales' April speech identifying increases in child-porn cases and chiding the Internet industry for not doing more about them."

No kidding. With DMOZ listing all the illegal sites, I think that critic was quite justified at least in regard to AOL.

"AOL, for instance, plans to check e-mail attachments that are already being scanned for viruses. If child porn is detected, AOL would refer the case to the missing-children's center for further investigation, as service providers are required to do under federal law."

How about they start scanning their own servers in DMOZ, for all of these kind of sites?


http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/jun2006/ispchildporn.php

 

The cat is out of the bag guys, there is not much more we can do now that the mass media and the lawyers are in on the deal.

Good work though, too bad they don't award money to those who did the early leg work, but the lawyers are all greedy pigs!

Maybe we can start threads on legal firms now!

PS: Gworld, the best way for AOL to deal with this is to sit down the administrators of DMOZ with AOL chief counsel John Ryan and simply tell them that they are all going to be fired if they don't shut down the entire adult section, we all know this is happening right now!

 

The link to this article seems to have stopped working. Is there a link elsewhere?

 

I tried to find the article but have been unable to locate it..

 

Is there a reason we're bumping a thread that's over a year old? Why not start a new one, this issue was resolved as far as I know.

 

I was wondering the same thing. If the DMOZ listings have reappeared, it would make sense to start a new thread about that event. If not, what exactly IS being discussed here?

 

I was simply asking about the article since it was referenced in this thread.