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Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It

posted by martyb on Friday March 09 2018, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the going-to-need-lots-of-volunteers-to-build-the-block-list dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 09 2018, @02:54PM (4 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday March 09 2018, @02:54PM (#649979) Homepage Journal

    It works in China. President Xi is about to start his 6th year in office. He's doing great, he's President for Life. He has the Golden Shield, it blocks the letter "N" when it's by itself. Not in words. It blocks pornography. And when you go to China you can't bring porn magazines or videos. Unless you're a diplomat or a President. And the Chinese economy is great, they work very hard. They make steel. They make aluminum. And they make a lot of money. Instead of sitting in bed and looking at porn.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @03:13PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 09 2018, @03:13PM (#649996) Journal

    Instead of sitting in bed and looking at porn.

    I can perfectly watch porn while standing, thank you. I can even stand in bed.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:25PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:25PM (#650086)

      I guess you can also make steel but can you make aluminium?

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday March 09 2018, @08:28PM

        by MostCynical (2589) on Friday March 09 2018, @08:28PM (#650211) Journal

        Steel? No, that's wood.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:15AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:15AM (#650312) Journal

        I guess you can also make steel but can you make aluminium?

        If she's available then yes, I can make her too.
        But, no, I'm not quite happy to pay 10% more for the services.

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