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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a word of warning: many teenagers are wantonly breaking the law every day by reading news sites on the web because the Department of Justice's weird implementation of vague laws has left a number of media outlets with odd age-based legal prohibitions for their web sites.
It's hard to beat the headline the EFF uses: "Are You A Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the Justice Department, You May Be a Criminal." The organization, a non-profit focused
And it’s no excuse to say that the vast majority of these cases will never be prosecuted. As the Ninth Circuit explained, “Ubiquitous, seldom-prosecuted crimes invite arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Instead of pursuing only suspects of actual crimes, it opens the door for prosecutors to go after people because the government doesn’t like them.
Originally posted by HomerinNC
Yeah its illegal because they want to keep our children ignorant and NOT think for themselves
utter crap
Originally posted by jimmyx
before everyone goes ballistic...user information is usually needed when you log in to read online material....the online publication DOES NOT WANT TO BE SUED for gathering information on underaged kids....so....the kid has to get permission....that's it...
Originally posted by beezzer
I wonder if you can get the NYT Online from an elementary school library.
Would that make the government funded school criminal?
Originally posted by starfoxxx
It should be a crime for people of ALL ages to read the NYtimes!!!
Most people don't know that their local paper is just a new york times company**..
The paper execs don't know a damn thing about what people want to read, how to read it, or how they are sharing it.. The old paper machines contain 50 copies of the paper but doesn't know how many you paid for. Might of worked for the past 50 years doesn't mean it will now.
illegal activities
an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong
Originally posted by MysteriousHusky
Originally posted by starfoxxx
It should be a crime for people of ALL ages to read the NYtimes!!!
Most people don't know that their local paper is just a new york times company**..
The paper execs don't know a damn thing about what people want to read, how to read it, or how they are sharing it.. The old paper machines contain 50 copies of the paper but doesn't know how many you paid for. Might of worked for the past 50 years doesn't mean it will now.
Oxford defines a crime as
illegal activities
or
an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong
In this context, reading a newspaper in the 21st century can be interpreted as a crime (ie. shameful) vs. surfing the web for news.