House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites

The U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Wednes­day over­whelm­ingly approved the Secur­ing Ado­les­cents From Exploitation-Online Act, or SAFE Act say­ing that any­one offer­ing an open WiFi con­nec­tion to the pub­lic must report ille­gal images includ­ing “obscene” car­toons and draw­ings – or face fines of up to $300,000. How you’re sup­posed to actu­ally do that is, of course, not addressed by the bill.

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