Credit and debit card companies should be fined if they allow card holders to use them to access to child pornography websites, MPs have said.What..?
Almost 40 have signed a Commons motion calling on the government to bring forward laws, similar to those in the United States, to penalise card providers if their products are involved in such activity.Well, that’s outrageous! How can you blame a third-party for the illegal use to which its service is put?
The motion was tabled by Labour MP Geraint Davies who will present a back-bench bill to parliament on Wednesday.
That’s as crazy as blaming Ford for bank robberies where the villains use a Focus to make their getaway!
Or blaming, and imposing fines, on the Post Office for delivering ransom notes.
Or blaming, and imposing fines, on the benefits office staff for their ‘clients’ using their benefit money to get drunk and cause disrup…
Actually, you know, I could get behind this movement after all!
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Or blaming Kleenex if someone downloads child porn and uses their tissues to clean up the.....
ReplyDeleteIt could totally bankrupt Smith & Wesson!
ReplyDeleteAlthough this is not new.
Remember I.G Farben were prosecuted at Nürnberg for producing Zyklon B. Even though it was quite legitimately produced as a disinfection chemical, and Krupp was also prosecuted after BOTH wars, for doing what arms companies are bloody PAID for, supplying weapons!
Answers on a post card....
ReplyDeleteIt's enough to make you f*cking weep. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
ReplyDeleteI sense a new meaning to the 'God-squad' here. It will come to mean that group of specialist officers expected to hunt down the provider of oxygen to child pornographers. Several trees were taken into custody - that kind of thing - but they weren't prepared to rat out Mr.Big.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteI don't see the problem.
ReplyDeleteCredit card companies really should be asking questions if they are passing through transactions to childporn.com.
yea, sarcasm.
Really this is just a way for those 40 mps to put on record how ignorant they are of how things work in the real world,the bank couldnt possibly know that payments to individual addresses are actually payments for pediphilic material.
Presumably the Bank of England will get fined if someone pays cash for kiddy porn? No, didn't think so.
ReplyDeleteActually, Airlines and Trucking companies are already held responsible for any illegal immigrants they carry, knowingly or not. This seems to me just another admission of failure by the State. They can't, or won't, control our borders, so how could they possibly control the internet? Just pass the buck to someone else.
ReplyDeleteI dealt with one (adult) porn dealer who was sending the videos out in packages marked up as 'Steam engine enthusiasts club'.
ReplyDeleteAnother dealt with memorabilia, but did porn as a side line. He advertised that the purchase would show up on the credit card slip as a souvenir bottle of whisky.
Good idea, but there are none so artful as porn dealers.
"Remember I.G Farben were prosecuted at Nürnberg for producing Zyklon B. Even though it was quite legitimately produced as a disinfection chemical..."
ReplyDeleteYes, not one of the allies finest moments...
"I sense a new meaning to the 'God-squad' here. It will come to mean that group of specialist officers expected to hunt down the provider of oxygen to child pornographers. "
Nothing, it seems, is too outlandish or illiberal if it's for the children...
"Really this is just a way for those 40 mps to put on record how ignorant they are of how things work in the real world..."
It's hitting a service they've probably never used, so why should they worry? Principles are for other people.
"Presumably the Bank of England will get fined if someone pays cash for kiddy porn?"
Yeah, you probably don't want to give them ideas!
"Actually, Airlines and Trucking companies are already held responsible for any illegal immigrants they carry, knowingly or not."
Good point! Yes, indeed they are.
"I dealt with one (adult) porn dealer who was sending the videos out in packages marked up as 'Steam engine enthusiasts club'."
I knew there was something dodgy about train spotters!