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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: 4, Touché) by Justin Case on Friday March 09 2018, @03:03PM (1 child)
Once they've created the list of ALL web pages (and FTP sites, and............) containing porn, do I get a copy of that list for my $20?
For research purposes, of course. I need to teach my AI how to recognize which 1s and 0s are naughty.
BTW I saw something resembling an almost-bare boobie on Facebook*; let's get the entire site blocked right away!
* It might have been a man-boob; is that OK? What if there isn't enough context to be sure?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:21PM
I'mma gonna go with.... no. I surf away from those if I accidentally run into them.
Lady boobs, on the other hand... those are great.