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canopic jug writes:

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.

Original Submission

1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
2. "mandatory censorship of web content" - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/state-lawmakers-want-block-pornography-expense-your-free-speech-privacy-and-hard
3. "automated pornography filters don't work" - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/aug/08/porn-filters-evidence-for-against
4. "Rhode Island proposes blocking all online porn and charging $20 to unblock it" - https://boingboing.net/2018/03/06/s-2584.html
5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=25246

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