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from the going-to-need-lots-of-volunteers-to-build-the-block-list dept.
Rhode Island is the latest US state to discuss mandatory censorship of web content, at first targeting pornography:
Rhode Island Democratic state Senators Frank Ciccone (@senatorciccone) and Hanna Gallo (@hannagallo27) have proposed grandstanding, unworkable legislation, "Relating to Public Utilities and Carriers—Internet Digital Blocking" which would mandate the state's ISPs to identify all the pornography on the [I]nternet, and then block it for all Rhode Islanders, unless those Rhode Islanders specifically requested their porn to be unblocked and paid $20 for the privilege.
These proposals fly in the face of the observation that automated pornography filters don't work and that even the manual ones are neither practical, reliable, nor scalable.
Source : Rhode Island proposes blocking all online porn and charging $20 to unblock it. Boing Boing.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:57PM (2 children)
I will also add that you can't apply TODAY'S moral standards to centuries past and expect everyone to have held them. That's asking too much. If you go by that standard, then people who were held as moral EVEN 10 YEARS AGO would now be considered oppressive ogres because, as one example, they didn't recognize gay marriage as a universal human right. Standards change and you have to judge people somewhat by the standards of the time. We live IN history, not OUTSIDE it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)
So, your premise is wrong.
This is usually the problem with arguments about things like "rights". The premises are wrong.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 09 2018, @10:34PM
Contracts are very underrated. Folks can have beautiful lives without ever looking at porn -- look at @VP [twitter.com] Pence, he doesn't even know what porn is. But life is a series of contracts. Without contracts, you can't be much. Maybe a homeless bum. If you don't have contracts, you don't have a SOCIETY. If our government ever says consenting adults or corporations can't make a contract, very sad day!
I'm a very traditional guy. But if two people dig each other, they dig each other.