Here we are in January 2019 and the same “copy and paste” legislative attempts are occurring here in Arizona. I can see that Georgia and Oklahoma were among the first states in 2017 to have tried to enact these “Human Trafficking” laws which were really just attempts to regulate pornography in general. Then RI and up to 17 other states may have considered it by March 2018. Now it’s Arizona that is affected.
I know I am ‘necroposting’ here — posting two years after the fact. I only found out about the term ‘necroposting’ yesterday, and it sounds rather icky but I’m still going to engage in it because these laws seem to sprout from the viral-like activities of one individual or group. TechDirt had a great article on his/their activities in early 2018 here:
Have any of these laws been enacted or is this just a stupid publicity stunt that lawmakers again and again fall into. Out here in Arizona, the tax dollars the Republican legislator hopes to collect will not go towards anti-sex trafficking or mental health as had been proposed in other states, but rather to fund a border wall.
As an IT professional, I feel somewhat powerless to combat the assumption that such 100% effective “porn filters” are a real thing against the wave of public assumption that such a thing must certainly exist if there is proposed legislation on it.
Frustrated, but all I can say is thank God there is TechDirt to keep such nonsense at bay. Now I need to write up a detailed article on just why AZ H.B. 2444 of 2019 is doomed to fail even if somehow, miraculously, it does get passed by our state legislature.
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Re: ditto Oklahoma
I know I am ‘necroposting’ here — posting two years after the fact. I only found out about the term ‘necroposting’ yesterday, and it sounds rather icky but I’m still going to engage in it because these laws seem to sprout from the viral-like activities of one individual or group. TechDirt had a great article on his/their activities in early 2018 here:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180328/09295439522/rhode-island-backs-away-incomprehensibly -stupid-porn-filter-law.shtml
Have any of these laws been enacted or is this just a stupid publicity stunt that lawmakers again and again fall into. Out here in Arizona, the tax dollars the Republican legislator hopes to collect will not go towards anti-sex trafficking or mental health as had been proposed in other states, but rather to fund a border wall.
As an IT professional, I feel somewhat powerless to combat the assumption that such 100% effective “porn filters” are a real thing against the wave of public assumption that such a thing must certainly exist if there is proposed legislation on it.
Frustrated, but all I can say is thank God there is TechDirt to keep such nonsense at bay. Now I need to write up a detailed article on just why AZ H.B. 2444 of 2019 is doomed to fail even if somehow, miraculously, it does get passed by our state legislature.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Bert Sierra.
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