Sex, Drugs, Rockband

USNews.com - Efforts to fight Internet regulation scored a major victory yesterday, as the Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration’s appeal of a 3rd Circuit decision that overturned the Child Online Protection Act. COPA, fi required owners of websites with “material harmful to minors” to take it upon themselves to prevent minors from getting access to their sites. The 3rd Circuit, however, ruled that it unnecessarily tramples on the First Amendment to place the burden on the website operators, when tools for parents to control what their children see online exist. Jack Balkin explains:

Not all parents are alike and not all children are alike; different parents might want to block different things. Some might decide not to block access at all but supervise and educate their children about Internet use in other ways. Without criminalizing website operations, the market can produce webservers and browsers to facilitate parental choice, as well third party software solutions, many of which already exist.

Generally speaking, the Internet should place filtering decisions and responsibilities on the end user, not the publisher of the content. There are exceptions to this basic rule, but sexually explicit speech is not one of them.
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You may be asking why my Imperial is featured in this post… I miss it, that’s why. Also, it was in an episode of X-Files. I’ve been thinking of my old car lately. I was a foolish man to get rid of it.
Anywhoo… Dave is full of shit. This is a marketing tactic for Dave’s awesome new Showtime series, Californication, where he plays a washed up writer addicted to sex. The porn reference was to shut his wife Tea up. But you can read the bullshit story put out by media whore Gannett. It’s just as full of shit as you would expect by people not in the know.

David Duchovny entered rehab after his addiction to online pornography spiralled out of control, it has been reported.

The ‘X-Files: I Want to Believe’ star – who announced last week he is voluntarily seeking treatment for his sex addiction – spent endless hours surfing X-rated sites on the internet, according to a friend.

The pal also denied David has cheated on Tea Leoni, his wife of 11 years.

A reporter for Fox News said: “I have inferred from my conversation with Duchovny’s friend that this has something to do with an addiction to pornography, probably on the internet. It’s the sex equivalent of a gambling addiction, where the person is just hopelessly trapped in chat rooms.”

Following David’s treatment, which is taking place in an undisclosed clinic, the couple and their two children are set to move to New York from Los Angeles, to get away from the hectic lifestyle of the Hollywood city.

It was confirmed Tuesday that Tea pulled out of her scheduled appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival.

She was due to attend to promote her new movie ‘Ghost Town’ following David’s revelation.

Microsoft has created a web browser with a feature nicknamed ‘porn mode’ that allows users to access websites without leaving a trace of the surfing habits on their computers.

The launch of Internet Explorer 8 with its InPrivateBrowsing mode is likely to affect the advertising models used by rivals, who monitor sites visited by users and use the information to target them with specific adverts.

It will also enable users to conceal potentially embarrassing websites such as medical sites and pornography that they visit from other people using the same computer.

At the moment companies selling online adverts can gather information about web users’ habits and use it to help them to decide what type of advertisements to show for each individual surfer.

However, the InPrivateBrowsing mode allows people to surf the web without having a list of sites that they visit being stored on their computers.

The new Internet Explorer 8 also introduces an additional InPrivateBlocking mode, which can block third-party content from appearing on web sites. Companies that provide such content may also be collecting and sharing information about what people do online. But users who turn on InPrivateBlocking will not see that content or be exposed to such data collection without their consent.

InPrivateBlocking can also keep some types of adverts from appearing – including those served up by Microsoft’s own advertising platform, whose success is considered critical to the software maker’s future.

Ian Moulster, the UK product manager for Internet Explorer 8, said: “If an advert is coming form a different internet site that would count as being something that is picked up by InPrivateBlocking. You can then draw up a black list of adverts that can be blocked.”