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Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005

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Legislation designed to protect children from Internet pornography by imposing strict age-verification requirements, funded by a “smut tax” requiring purveyors of online porn to pay the costs.

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Legislation inspired by the Third Way report The Porn Standard: Children and Pornography on the Internet, and introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and several others. It would impose strict age-verification requirements for Internet porn and a “smut tax” – a federal excise tax of 25 percent – that would require purveyors of online porn to pay the costs of protecting children online.

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