By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
September 26, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Designed to keep the Internet safe for children, a new bill promoted by discount Web host Go Daddy (godaddy.com) passed in the Senate late Thursday, giving law enforcement agencies the means to more effectively investigate online crimes against children and to prosecute online predators.
According to the company’s announcement Friday, Go Daddy has offered testimony and worked to help shape the new Children Protection bill to protect minors from online predators and it expects president Bush to sign this into law quickly. Hardly the effort of one party alone, the bi-partisan bill incorporates pieces of Senators McCain, Biden, Clinton’s proposed bills.
Aside from its political lobbying efforts, Go Daddy works with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on a regular basis, and investigates and shuts down thousands of child pornography sites.
Go Daddy was vocal in the U.S. House of Representatives’ legislation to fund public awareness and educational campaigns, create a special counsel to prosecute child exploitation, bolster the Web Crimes Against Children task force and make illegal for adults to lie about their ages online in order to lure minors for sexual conduct. The bills passed in Novemeber 2007.
Go Daddy’s efforts in Washington, however, continue. Also announced Friday, Congress is in the final stages of passing another bill Go Daddy has supported. It is aimed at shutting down rogue Internet pharmacies which issue medicines without perscriptions.
Outspoken and opinionated CEO and founder Bob Parsons (bobparsons.tv) has used his wealth and influence, helping flood victims during a particularly disastrous Summer, but stirred controversy in June 2005 when he said Guantanamo Bay interrogation methods are “incredibly mild” he said, noting “Americans who are captured in the Middle East have their heads hacked off.” He has since retracted and apologized for the statement.
While reprehensible on moral grounds, child pornography on the Internet also results in costly, round-the-clock monitoring of their hosted web pages to monitor illegal activity.
About theWHIR.com
Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, interviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR is an iNET Interactive property. For more information on iNET Interactive, visit http://www.inetinteractive.com
No related posts.
