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House Bill Targets use of Pentagon Networks for Child Pornography

posted by martyb on Monday July 08 2019, @11:01PM   
from the Think-of-the-Children dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) introduced legislation on Tuesday meant to halt the use of Department of Defense (DOD) computer networks by users for sharing or procuring pornographic images of children.

The End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) was introduced in the wake of in[sic] an investigation called "Project Flicker" carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This investigation identified over 5,000 individuals, including many affiliated with DOD, who were subscribed to child porn websites.

The Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service subsequently identified hundreds of DOD-affiliated individuals as suspects involved in accessing child pornography, several of whom used government devices to view and share the images.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/451383-house-bill-aims-to-stop-use-of-pentagon-networks-for-sharing-child

Why does this require a new law?

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Original Submission

• Re:I propose a better law (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:13PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:13PM (#864946)

  The American-born worker, who refused to lower his family's living standard to the immigrant's level, opted instead to have fewer children. Thus, concluded the theory, the inferior races would outbreed and displace their white Anglo-Saxon betters.

  Progressive economists proposed a minimum wage as the ideal remedy. It lifted up the deserving while excluding the unworthy and did both in the name of progress. Journalist and progressive social reformer Paul Kellogg in 1913 advocated a minimum wage of $3 per day for all immigrants, double the $1.50 per day ordinary laborers were then paid. Kellogg knew that no firm would hire an unskilled immigrant for $3 per day. That was the purpose of his high minimum wage, as he wrote, to exclude "Angelo Lucca and Alexis Spivak" from American shores, thus protecting American jobs for "John Smith and Michael Murphy."

  Kellogg targeted "racially undesirable" immigrants, but a high minimum wage would also protect the American workingman from unworthy economic competition already in the American workforce. The developmentally disabled, then called "feeble minded" or "defective," also were treated by many labor reformers as low-wage threats. Unable to command a minimum wage, they too would be pushed into unemployment and then could be removed to institutions or to labor colonies.

  https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/commentary/thomas-c-leonard-the-sordid-origins-of-minimum-wage-law/article_ca3ea287-0e17-5426-bc05-69b586b7a264.html [pressofatlanticcity.com]

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