Re: Children's Privacy Act

Lauren Amy Gelman said:

>The text of the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment
>Act is available at the Epic "Children's Privacy" web site:
>
>http://epic.org/privacy/kids/
>
>Read it before you trash it!


We at LolitaWatch GMBH are amused that legislators in the United States are
attempting to legislate that which can be so easily bypassed with the
world-wide Internet.

In fact, anticipating such restrictions on the collection of some data, we
moved our operations to Aalborg, Danmark earlier this year.

(Forslag og ideer vedr. indhold modtages gerne af: www@lolita.nordjyllands .dk )

Danish laws are not so repressive as American laws, and our American
friends can so easily access our data bases of information derived from the
mandatory age-labeling tags you Americans so conveniently (for us) insist
upon.

--Klaus Jellingestenen

On Thu, 23 May 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> We at LolitaWatch GMBH are amused that legislators in the United States are
> attempting to legislate that which can be so easily bypassed with the
> world-wide Internet.
[...]
> Danish laws are not so repressive as American laws, and our American
> friends can so easily access our data bases of information derived from the
> mandatory age-labeling tags you Americans so conveniently (for us) insist
> upon.

Good and valid points about the CPA's hypocrisy and inanity, but this
doesn't really address the bill (was it meant to?). 

CDA + CPA = bad. CDA = bad. CPA is still indeterminate.

I recognize that criminalizing the free flow of information is like trying
to stick your finger in a dike, but every little bit has an effect. In
this case, I'd call it a positive effect. 

I was certainly disappointed to hear a couple of cypherpunks the other day
discussing for-profit offshore data havens full of personal information
that is illegal to collect in the US as a business opportunity *they* were
interested in pursuing. I just can't see myself doing that, for anybody.
Gubmint or private, doesn't matter.

-rich

>>>>> "Klaus Jellingestenen" <tcmay@got.net> writes:

  > We at LolitaWatch GMBH are amused...

  > .. we moved our operations to Aalborg, Danmark earlier this year.

  > (Forslag og ideer vedr. indhold modtages gerne af:
  > www@lolita.nordjyllands .dk )

Hmmm, but still incorporated in Germany, huh?

I assume that LolitaWatch Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung will
shortly become LolitaWatch aktieselskab...

Klaus, hvor længe har De haft disse mareridt?

-- 
Anders Bødker