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: 2) by ilPapa on Friday March 09 2018, @07:24PM
This is so stupid. Why do they even let Rhode Island be a state, anyway? You can ride your bike across Rhode Island in a couple of hours. In Texas, they have shopping malls that are bigger than Rhode Island. Hell, they've got Bass Pro Shops that are bigger than Rhode Island. We should just split it between Connecticut and Massachusetts and give their statehood to someone who deserves it, like Puerto Rico or Quebec.
You are still welcome on my lawn.