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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:25PM (2 children)
I guess you can also make steel but can you make aluminium?
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday March 09 2018, @08:28PM
Steel? No, that's wood.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:15AM
If she's available then yes, I can make her too.
But, no, I'm not quite happy to pay 10% more for the services.
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