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: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Friday March 09 2018, @02:43PM (1 child)
There will be a loooong and hard academic study with experts that will evaluate it for years. Costing many billions of dollars. No stone unturned, no image unwatched. All to protect you from the evil pornographers and to keep your sacred bodily fluids safe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:27PM
> There will be a loooong and hard academic study with experts that will evaluate it for years.
That's what she said!
*snicker*
I mean, the real question is, where do I apply?