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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: 3, Insightful) by mendax on Friday March 09 2018, @08:18PM (1 child)
This proposed law is not only bad law, it's blatantly unconstitutional. Most pornography is protected by the First Amendment. The government requiring the payment of a fee in order to get access tot it is an illegal prior restraint. When will they, the pols, ever learn? 'Nuf said.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:35AM
It's also discriminatory against males. Romance novels are all porn too. Different things excite different people, but the changes the body undergoes are fairly similar, at least in terms of what these people are concerned about.