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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 NewNic on Friday March 09 2018, @07:22PM (2 children)

    by NewNic (6420) on Friday March 09 2018, @07:22PM (#650172) Journal

    As far as I can tell, Canada has had prohibition across the nation, between 1918 to 1920, leaving Mexico as the only North American country that has never had national prohibition.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @09:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @09:46PM (#650246)

    Here's a list of all the countries in North Americahttps://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/countries-of-north-america.html/ [countries-ofthe-world.com]:
    Antigua and Barbuda
    Bahamas
    Barbados
    Belize
    Canada
    Costa Rica
    Cuba
    Dominica
    Dominican Republic
    El Salvador
    Grenada
    Guatemala
    Haiti
    Honduras
    Jamaica
    Mexico
    Nicaragua
    Panama
    Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Saint Lucia
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Trinidad and Tobago
    United States of America (USA)

    I think you need to extend your research a bit to see if any of the others listed have had prohibition during their existence as a country.

    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday March 09 2018, @11:11PM

      by NewNic (6420) on Friday March 09 2018, @11:11PM (#650295) Journal

      I don't need to extend my research. The fact that there is one country that has never had nation-wide prohibition shows the lie that was posted before.

      Also, excluding Canada and the USA, I think that all of those countries are predominantly non-white population. Mostly Latino, some Afro-Carribean.

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