New COPPA
The US House of Representatives voted 413-8 to approve a new "virtual child porn" law last Tuesday, called the Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act of 2002. Wired reports, "COPPA narrows the definitions of the law, by banning only those computer images that are 'indistinguishable' from real child porn images. It also prohibits all obscene pornographic images of prepubescent children, including drawings, cartoons, paintings and sculptures."
Tangential quibble — Why do they give all these porn-related laws such similar acronyms? CIPA, COPA, CPPA, now COPPA. It causes unnecessary confusion for the honest, hardworking, taxpaying sex bloggers. Why not something like the Virtual Juvenile Obscenity Ban (VJOB)?
