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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @06:00PM (2 children)
So what? The presence of such things automatically mean the US was not "pretty good" in the past. Even now, the US is far from merely 'not perfect' given the countless ways in which it is violating people's freedoms. I guess you just don't value liberty as much as I do.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 09 2018, @06:43PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @07:28PM
Your reply is completely nonsensical. I do see liberty, which is why I vehemently object to violations of it, such as mass surveillance. Your standards are simply very low.