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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: 1) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 09 2018, @07:39PM
Rhode Island's a blue state and all the politicians are on the same page. IIRC, Providence is almost as bad as NYC was. And not a thing will be done about it. Just like the legalized prostitution they took away from the hardworking, opiod-avoiding, tax-paying citizens. No hookers, no porn, are they really trying to turn Rhode Island into Rural Island?