Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy

Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by saagarjha on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:37PM (#16518303)

> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee.

Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by rgbrenner on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:10PM (#16518462)

Read their faq... this question and the one after it: http://humantraffickingpreventionact.com/#q2

They encourage retailers and manufacturers to charge more than the $20 and pocket the difference. They are marketing the bill as pro-business.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by deathanatos on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:30PM (#16518540)

The writing and grammar on that site is terrible, but the double-entendre on that question takes the cake:

> the retailers can set the amount to be what it feels the market can bare.

I'm hoping that wasn't intentional.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by DavidSJ on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:34PM (#16518740)

The writing and grammar on that site is terrible,

I’m sorry to do this, but I think you mean that the writing and grammar are terrible, not that they is terrible.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by heartbreak on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:37PM (#16518753)

Things aren't always what they seem.

Fish and chips is what I had for dinner.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by aspett on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:14PM (#16518472)

This is mindblowing. "I can't believe" is so watered down it can not express the feeling felt when reading things like this. This past year has been insanity - this is just insanity..

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by userbinator on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:22PM (#16518503)

"I can't believe" is so watered down it can not express the feeling felt when reading things like this.

I believe the suitable phrase is now "I can't even."

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by xorxarle on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:58PM (#16518401)

I'll charge my friends <$20 to install a custom rom/firmware. More $$$$$ for me.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by jordan801 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:35PM (#16518561)

Because they don't care about the moral and psychological aspects of the content filtered. They care about making money and they know that people will buy the opt out.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by Gibbon1 on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:52AM (#16519249)

> they don't care about the moral and psychological aspects

I disagree. Authoritarians are always obsessed with being able to control peoples access to sex. Because that's a powerful lever you can use to control people.

For instance dominionist evangelicals and polygamist Mormons are obsessed with taking sexual rights away from women and commoditising access. Keeping young people and especially young men from access to porn, same deal.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by Crontab on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:08PM (#16518457)

That almost makes me wonder if this is being pushed by someone with a financial interest in the outcome.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by brianwawok on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:55PM (#16518390)

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by dang on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:03PM (#16518643)

Not here, please.

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