The popular gay adult social networking site Manhunt.net is launching an offensive aimed at troubling new federal legislation known as Section 2257. Supposedly aimed at preventing child pornography, this Department of Justice law was amended in 2006 to require all people who post adult photos online to also provide personal information, including a photo ID such as a driver's license or a passport. The site says it has until September 10 to respond to object to this new legislation. Here's more:

The regulations would allow the Attorney General to conduct warrantless searches at will on the sites’ records, including your personal information.

There are few safeguards over what the FBI can do with the information it obtains.

If a site operator fails to comply with the regulations, he or she would face a prison sentence of up to 5 years.

Obviously, none of this has anything to do with child pornography. Instead, it is a blatant attempt to end the ability of consenting adults to use adult social-networking sites to meet other people for sex. Obviously, if these regulations go into effect, they will kill this industry.

There is a form letter on the Manhunt action page that those concerned can e-mail to the DOJ.

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