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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: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday March 09 2018, @03:15PM (15 children)
As a Bernie fan, I'm continually amazed at how incredibly stupid many Democrat politicians are, and how happy they are to shoot themselves in the foot, and also to make themselves unpalatable to voters. They do stupid shit like this, and then wonder why they lose elections. Incredible.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Friday March 09 2018, @03:31PM
Stupidity is bipartisan.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @03:58PM (10 children)
For this? You make a fuss for this?
Do you now what SIFI [wikipedia.org] is? The "too big to fail", the ones you bailed out from your pocket last time.
Most of them are about to get a reprieve [politico.com] from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act [wikipedia.org] - they'll be no longer scrutinized if they have under $250B in assets.
With the blessing of Heidi Heitkamp (D) [wikipedia.org], Jon Tester (D) [wikipedia.org] and Joe Donnelly (D) [wikipedia.org] - all three standing for reelection and in need of political donations.
I bet if you look into their donation sheet, you'll find quite significant contributions from the banking sector.
In exchange for these donations they'll be happy to shoot you in the foot.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 09 2018, @05:09PM (9 children)
So what? I recommend giving all of them that reprieve, not just the small banks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @05:27PM (3 children)
Because, of course, khallow is the ultimate authority, his recommendation must reign supreme.
Not only that, but he moved his money in a bank impervious to financial collapse.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 09 2018, @05:37PM (2 children)
Oh look, a snowflake triggered by a different opinion. By definition, recommendations don't reign anything.
Which is probably true. Plus, why would you think that Dodd–Frank actually changes that any? Theater doesn't usually do that.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday March 09 2018, @08:05PM (1 child)
The obvious rebuttal is that "reign" is an intransitive verb, although it can also be a noun. And, hardly a snowflake, majority opinion? Verily and forsooth, all are aware that a "khallow recommendation" is no recommendation at all. It is more like an opinion, not a different opinion, just a wrong opinion. So, obvious, expected, and not at all useful or interesting.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @11:47PM
Intransitive, intransigent and anti-commutative.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @11:50PM (4 children)
Oh, man, you are not in the position to make recommendations that matter on S/N.
Try to get into one of the Senate's commissions for that, here we just waste time with inconsequential comments.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:19AM (3 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:21AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:40AM (1 child)
Oh, no, your opinion matter to us, the soylenters, we are an all -nclusive organization (a non-for-profit one; more like anti-income actually, if we look on the "Funding" progress. But I digress...). So I was saying that we are an all -nclusive organization and we recognize that even khallow is an unique snowflake and we do pay attention to his feelings, even more so when they are inadvertently hurt by his own misunderstanding.
It is the recommendation part that is inconsequential - usually the term imply that somebody could benefit from the recommended course of action by, you know, applying it in the actual course of action. "Recommendation" is like an advice or something, only more pretentious.
As such, it is wasted here on S/N - I doubt that the congresscritter press secretaries monitor S/N to communicate to their employers the recommendations posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:31AM
Well, I like using five dollar words. Just be thankful, I'm not randomly pulling words out of the dictionary and deliberately inserting them into my posts. But perhaps we ought to canvass the SN population to see if they approve? I think that would be next to saintliness to do that, right? Or maybe it's time for absentation from this discussion?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 09 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
I mean, I can see both Democrats and Republicans trying to do this. The Democrats, because as liberals they know better than us how we should live our lives and want to forcibly "help" us in that regard, the Republicans because porn is dirty and unBiblical so ban it while they all secretly are addicted to porn themselves behind closed doors.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 09 2018, @07:20PM
Florida Republicans Believe Porn Is More Dangerous Than Guns [gq.com]
(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?