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.
Why does this require a new law?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:13PM
Whenever I see stuff like this that doesn't really seem necessary but will get plenty of coverage, I always wonder what they are doing that they're trying to distract everyone away from. These sorts of "look at me!" things are usually used to draw attention for a while so they can quickly rubber-stamp some other bills that they don't want the public to know about and be able to call them out on before they get passed.