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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:57PM
How about we make it so that in order to obtain access to the internet we pay a company a fee. With that fee we gain access to their service and we can go to whatever website we want. I propose we call these companies Internet Service Providers, ISP for short, and we make information readily available for parents to block/monitor content in order to protect their children without infringing on the abilities of others to use the internet in the way they see fit.
Eh fuck it let's just block everything.