If any admins are considering it, they should be made aware of 2257 which would basically require them (and pretty much anyone who posts here) to keep records of anyone who posts their own sexual/nude images (offsite links are okay... I think) on the site. It was passed during the Bush admin and shut down a number of the smaller adult communities. It's not often enforced on non-porn sites except as a method of letting the Feds get their foot in the door which is why Reddit and Imgur don't bother giving a shit about it.
edit: I realized my wording was a bit off there, but basically the owners of the site and even the users are responsible for the record keeping of ANY and ALL sexual photos or videos.
It's not so much about what you've uploaded and when, but that you have legal age identification records available for anyone involved. Which is mostly normal, 2257 complicates things by spreading out the responsibility for who else needs those records and that changes depending on the back and forth legality of it all over the years. Like any legit video you watch or adult site you visit will have a little 2257 compliance bit that basically says we have the IDs of everyone in this video on file and available for law enforcement requests. But 2257 expanded that so anyone involved in the dissemination of that porn content are technically supposed to have those legal age identification records as well.
Here's the Wikipedia article on it. You as a Creator would be a Primary Producer, but anyone that posts it to the site either hosting it on the site or using an img tag would then make themselves and the site owners Secondary Producers. It's all a lot of grey areas and it was basically written to be used as like the internet equivalent of broken tail light enforcement.
Isn't that the law Jim Profit is always referring to when encouraging his followers to post child porn and bomb threats to websites in order to imprison the moderators?
I'm not familiar with Jim Profit, so I can't say. There's plenty of laws regarding the illegality of child pornography, 2257 was basically an attack on adult websites and their communities.
If any admins are considering it, they should be made aware of 2257 which would basically require them (and pretty much anyone who posts here) to keep records of anyone who posts their own sexual/nude images (offsite links are okay... I think) on the site. It was passed during the Bush admin and shut down a number of the smaller adult communities. It's not often enforced on non-porn sites except as a method of letting the Feds get their foot in the door which is why Reddit and Imgur don't bother giving a shit about it.
edit: I realized my wording was a bit off there, but basically the owners of the site and even the users are responsible for the record keeping of ANY and ALL sexual photos or videos.
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It's not so much about what you've uploaded and when, but that you have legal age identification records available for anyone involved. Which is mostly normal, 2257 complicates things by spreading out the responsibility for who else needs those records and that changes depending on the back and forth legality of it all over the years. Like any legit video you watch or adult site you visit will have a little 2257 compliance bit that basically says we have the IDs of everyone in this video on file and available for law enforcement requests. But 2257 expanded that so anyone involved in the dissemination of that porn content are technically supposed to have those legal age identification records as well.
Here's the Wikipedia article on it. You as a Creator would be a Primary Producer, but anyone that posts it to the site either hosting it on the site or using an img tag would then make themselves and the site owners Secondary Producers. It's all a lot of grey areas and it was basically written to be used as like the internet equivalent of broken tail light enforcement.
Isn't that the law Jim Profit is always referring to when encouraging his followers to post child porn and bomb threats to websites in order to imprison the moderators?
I'm not familiar with Jim Profit, so I can't say. There's plenty of laws regarding the illegality of child pornography, 2257 was basically an attack on adult websites and their communities.