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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: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Friday March 09 2018, @02:56PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday March 09 2018, @02:56PM (#649981)

    While they are at it, they should block any number representing a color that may resemble skin too.

    I'm sure nobody will try to get around that, by, say, painting their porn stars blue or green or some other unnatural human skin color, throwing in some cosplay, and making it some sort of sci fi parody.

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  • (Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Friday March 09 2018, @07:58PM

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Friday March 09 2018, @07:58PM (#650190)

    Like this? http://www.sliceofscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/trekbodypaint.jpg [sliceofscifi.com]