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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @03:40PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @03:40PM (#650024)

    Democratic voting is all about one group taking stuff from another group.

    I'll note that not long after women got the vote, beer was outlawed.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:26PM (#650045)

    See how you're not just routinely downmodded these days? Thanks for not spamming ad much / anymore.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:37PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:37PM (#650046)

      Not the other way around.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:22PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:22PM (#650080)

        > The "Spam" follows the downmodding.

        'Cause throwing a tantrum when the society points out you're being rude is a completely normal thing that non-crazy people do.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:39PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:39PM (#650106)

          That's the deal.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by rcamera on Friday March 09 2018, @05:03PM (1 child)

    by rcamera (2360) on Friday March 09 2018, @05:03PM (#650060) Homepage Journal

    I'll note that not long after women got the vote, beer was outlawed.

    i wonder if those two concepts are somehow tied together [cuny.edu]... that single image has caused countless millions to become alcoholics.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday March 09 2018, @08:10PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday March 09 2018, @08:10PM (#650196) Journal

      The first part of Ken Burns' Prohibition [wikipedia.org], “A Nation of Drunkards,” covers how the temperance and women's suffrage movements were related.