Posted on 03/17/2021 3:34:20 AM PDT by RandFan
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in Utah have fired another salvo in their longtime campaign against online porn with a new requirement that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state automatically block pornography in a plan that critics call a significant intrusion on free speech.
Supporters and critics alike are now waiting to find out if new Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, will sign or veto a proposal l that the GOP-controlled Legislature passed this month.
Cox hasn’t indicated publicly which way he’s leaning. His spokeswoman, Jennifer Napier-Pearce, said only in an email that Cox “will carefully consider this bill during the bill signing period.” He has until March 25 to decide
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First search all the legislators’ computers, personal and government owned, for porn. Publicize when and where found. Watch the fun.
Utah has so many other problems right now, but somehow they think *porn* is this important???????
Governor Cox heartily endorsed all the coronavirus restrictions in Utah before he took office imposed by the former GOP governor.
If he can be that draconian as to ban family gatherings why not support this but big business might not like it so Cox could opt for a veto.
This is why Republicans lose, issues nobody cares about.
No matter how one feels about the topic, it seems foolish to think you can stop it.
You can pretend to try. You can fail. You can look foolish.
You can open yourself to charges of trampling on people’s Constitutional rights.
There is no possible upside to this.
Just leave people alone, both sides need to knock it off.
The obvious solution: Nobody will sell phones or tablets in Utah.
Why? Because as every IT person knows, **there is no such thing as a reliable porn filter.** Not if you want to be able to access more than a short list of approved sites. And even then, you can look up methods to bypass the filters *anyway*.
I would imagine if one wanted to watch porn in the soon to be less free state of Utah a VPN would work right? I don’t know but would think it’s possible. What about using a browser that pings you in a different country? Isn’t that tor? A friend used that when submitting info for some crooked stuff going on in our school district.
Utah’s biggest problem is the Californification that is on going.
What does PIERRE DELECTO have to say about this??
Any mandated filter that can be used to block porn sites, can be used to block “hate sites” (like FR).
Once you allow the precedent that the government can decide what is allowable for you to see and read, then freedom loses.
Agree with this although it won’t go anywhere as surely it’s unconstitutional.
Won’t stop politicians trying though...
I personally believe the rampant proliferation and use of pornography in society is a reason for our plummeting birth rates, but I don’t agree with filtering or limiting it. We need to fix the root of the problem, the cues that start the habit loops and the rewards they offer.
Having children, even marriage, is considered a burden for most of the youth today. There’s no reward for bringing new life into this world. With the death rattle of organized becoming louder, the reason for procreation, the continuation of the species, is lost to hubris and hedonism.
Raising a child takes work. Marriage takes work. Today’s youth don’t want to work. There’s no incentive to do so when government offers everything they need, fully subsidized, from cradle to grave.
Conservative or Mormon?
Ask Harry Reid where he stands on porn.
Online pornography is a major problem especially for children growing up with it readily available. Many are coming of age with impaired capacity to form real relationships with real people. Watching porn in early stages of psychosexual development has an effect similar to the effects of being sexually abused. But I doubt the government can do much effectively, not until we get over the idea that porn is a harmless and acceptable form of “free speech.”
Would it block broadcasts of the WAP Grammys? If not, why not?
Top. Kek.
The pr0n is the symptom.
It’s unlimited birth control and the lie that women can have it all, together with the cocaine-for-female-hypergamy-and-narcissism phone apps, which give even plain women the illusion that they all have a right to a 10 even for dating, let alone marriage.
Studies by some of the dating apps show that women online rate 80% of men as below average.
Men are tired of getting shot down (and villified as rapists and worse by the feminists for trying contact in real life), so they go home and watch pr0n or OnlyFans.
The women are so caught up in their fantasies instead of reality, that they made 50 Shades of Ghey a runaway bestseller—a mid-20’s plain Jane somehow drives a handsome, (and available!) billionaire besotted over ONLY her, and yet drives her into a BDSM (thrills, not “abuse!”)™ relationship, but over time, her speshul snowflake love heals the damaged little boy within, and he changes for her.
And she doesn’t get bored by it, or miss the daring excitement of what they used to have.
That’s every bit as destructive as hard-core pr0n.
Or, more so, because it is openly praised and accepted.
Trashy romance novels have been around for decades if not longer. They were meant as an escape for housewives. 50 Shades is the elevation of the romance novel to this sort of masturbatory feminine bondage fantasy. But yet any men who mention an interest in this sort of thing are “perverts?”
The vilification of men is spot on, and it’s a growing problem. Men my age (40s) have watched as legal systems have systematically emasculated the role of the father. Men lose a majority of custody cases. Men get taken to the cleaners in many divorce cases. Men are portrayed as aloof, spineless morons in television and movies. The idea of “boys being boys” is now considered toxic. Catcalling a woman is grounds for being socially castrated.
So as a man, why should I bother navigating the waters where yes means no, no means rape, fathering a child means I can’t see the kid for 18 years but I’ll pay for everything the mother needs or spend time behind bars for being a “deadbeat,” and any type of sexual deviance, which is acceptable for women to adopt, is grounds for being put on an offender registry? Society has taught men, through very indirect messaging, that sitting in a dimly lit basement watching pornography is the path of least resistance for a life unadorned by the struggles of maleness.
Unless, of course, you want to claim you’re really a woman. Then you’re celebrated.
I don’t see where porn is a first amendment thing. I know judges have ruled that is is, but I don’t get it. Perhaps that’s why they ruled that way.
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