Wait, sorry, it’s Secondary Producer, not provider. Secondary Producer is actually a legal term under 2257 that indicates their role as a host obligates them to keep certain identification on hand of all models pictured in the porn. The same goes for the people who share the images, even if they’re not the creators of the image. It’s a fucked law that’s gone in an out of limbo since it’s inception.
The first part of that law sounds good, the second part about sharing the images sounds pretty messed up. But Reddit or Imgur implementing proper verification processes to obtain such documentation would be a public admission that they are a porn site on some level, which would also be terrible for investors. So I guess that’s why they’re going to try ban all porn before Reddit goes public. Like Tumblr all over again.
It’s one of those laws that sounds good, but was just rehashing previous laws and creating another stick for the law to go after people who weren’t breaking previous laws. Standard think of the children shit, packaged around being able to harass enemies of the state when they can’t go after them for anything else. It’s pretty much unused since it’s creation back during the Bush years, except to send a message. In other words, imgur and reddit have been breaking this law since they’ve first allowed adult content, without any repercussions. Which should tell you how much the state actually cares about underage porn.
