A good piece of legislation from the house that should help the epidemic of Internet child porn in the U.S.
The first bill, passed 409-2, expands the reporting duties of Internet service providers with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws. The ISPs would have to inform the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of the Internet identity and geographic location of suspected sex offenders and the time child pornography was downloaded. They also would have to preserve child pornography images for investigations and prosecutions. ISPs that fail to report incidents of child pornography would be subject to fines of $150,000 per image per day, up from the current $50,000. The penalty would jump to $300,000, double the current rate, for subsequent cases.
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