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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.

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) by Hyper on Friday March 09 2018, @03:39PM

    by Hyper (1525) on Friday March 09 2018, @03:39PM (#650023) Journal

    What is the point if people can just dodge around the restriction.
    Penalties are another consideration. Could they put people on a sex offender registry for accessing porn without a licence?

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