Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

CNET News.com ^ | March 21, 2005 | Declan McCullagh

[apackof2]

Huh?

[Adam-ondi-Ahman]

Sometimes you can be really funny.


Then there's now.

[KoRn]

Government idiocy at work. This is like the government mandating what people can watch on TV.

[Dog]

Hey ....that is not funny.

[Dog]

What the heck is going on with FR.....I have never seen such mean spirited posts in my 5 yrs on FR....as I have seen in the last 5 days.

[stylin_geek]

Okay, I'm getting punchy, I thought it said "Pet Porn" bill.

[Servant of the 9]

Spokesman Tammy Kikuchi said Monday that Gov. Huntsman "doesn't have a concern about the constitutional challenge."

Typical politician.
Only cares about looking good at the moment.

So9

[Moral Hazard]

I don't get it. If the government creates a registry of bad sites, why can't the consumer get the list from the government and block those sites directly? Why involve the ISP at all?

[TheOracleAtLilac]

Although a stoooopid law, compliance could be fairly easy for the ISPs:
A link to a file containing all "offending sites" (ala Ie-spyad) on the ISP's start page.
Or a routine like in SpyBot where you can't get to above sites - once loaded.

[RadioAstronomer]

Any content provider that the Utah attorney general claims hosts material that's harmful to minors must rate it or face third-degree felony charges.

You could pretty much kill the internet with this. Pretty much anything could be "deemed harmful" (including political blogs) if it was ruled that way.

[RadioAstronomer]

I fervently hope it is overturned by the courts.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

I don't get it. If the government creates a registry of bad sites, why can't the consumer get the list from the government and block those sites directly? Why involve the ISP at all?

You obviously don't understand govt's need for CONTROLand absence of logic/common sense.

[layman]

Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list

I don't have a problem with this. Apparently you do. Why?

[Redcloak]

The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors."

They already have those on the Internet; though they usually do nothing more than spawn a blizzard of pop-up ads!

I just hope that they don't call the official list something like www.jonshotpornolinks.com.

[Billthedrill]

So that's what they wanted a copy of my bookmarks for!

[Vroomfondel]

I wonder if anyone's going to clue them in about Usenet...

[Phantom Lord]

I don't have a problem with this. Apparently you do. Why?

Why do you support government telling residents in Utah with an ISP in Utah what they can and can not see on the internet?

Government control and regulation of the internet and its content is OK with you?

And you call yourself a conservative?

[gitmo]

Is democraticunderground on that list?

[Phantom Lord]

Is democraticunderground on that list?

Sean Hannity should be. After all, his show is "political pornography."