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South Carolina to Debate Pre-Installed Porn Filter on New Computers

posted by n1 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the sin-tax dept.

takyon writes:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/south-carolina-will-debate-bill-to-block-porn-on-new-computers/

A South Carolina politician is hoping to stop computer owners in his state from viewing pornography.

State Rep. Bill Chumley, a Republican from Spartanburg, told his hometown newspaper that his Human Trafficking Prevention Act would require manufacturers or sellers of computers or other devices that access the Internet to install digital blocks to prevent the viewing of obscene content. Blocking websites that facilitate prostitution would also be required, he said.

If a purchaser wants the filter lifted, he or she has to pay $20 to have it taken out—provided the person is over the age of 18.

Also at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday December 20 2016, @12:21PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @12:21PM (#443715) Journal

    Obviously, this qualifies Linux as a hacker-tool to circumvent the filter of the OS. (Everyone knows that the OS of a computer is MS Windows.) Probably there are some options to instrument DMCA to punish circumventing the good Windows Access Control by using such evil communist hacker tools.

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