Main Promoter Of Utah's Anti-Porn Law Stands To Profit From The Law
from the surprise,-surprise dept
Is it any surprise that one of the biggest backers of Utah's overreaching and misguided anti-porn law actually is likely to profit tremendously from the law? It turns out that one of the main supporters of the bill just happens to run a company that sells web porn filters. The law, if you don't remember, requires ISPs to block access to a specific list of sites. In other words, those ISPs need filters. While the guy in question says his filters are for home use, not ISPs, apparently no one told others at the firm -- because sales people from the firm have approached ISPs since the law was passed. Of course, either way, this law is quite problematic. It isn't the ISPs who have done anything wrong, but the sites hosting the content. Utah should go after those sites -- not the ISPs. Since a similar law in Pennsylvania was tossed out by the courts, it's likely that this law will be facing quite a battle. In the meantime, though, it's biggest supporter will keep on selling software in support of the law.
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What about Newsgroups?
These are not websites in far off lands, these are pictures posted to newsgroups which are stored locally on the ISP's servers. If the ISP will not discriminate in what files they store on their own servers, then they need to be slapped.
Millions of women and children are exploited by this barbaric and sick industry. Perpetrators need to be brought to justice.
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Re: What about Newsgroups?
BILLIONS of men woman and children are exploited by extremists and the sick industry that tries to keep all things 'clean' and slap laws around in an attempt to stop this sort of stuff.
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Who decides what's "obscene"?
One of the worst filter programs I've read about is BSafe (www.bsafe.com). This thing is pushed by the ultra-conservative right wing (you can see it on the opening page) and filters info that could be extremely useful to people, including terrorist info, health sites, dating sites, etc. I find people that filter crap because of a personal agenda offensive.
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