[78508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sun Mar 6 23:47:03 2005
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:45:56 -0800
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503041133050.6404@catbert.rellim.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Does anyone actually know anyone that has actually used the V-Chip?
*raising hand*
Got children, y'know. :)
Anything other than TV-Y, TV-Y7, or TV-PG, along with the movie ratings of
approximately the same stripe, require Mom or Dad to enter our four-digit PIN
before the cable company will let anyone watch.
The key here is that the end-user has the ultimate choice. If Utah's law
provides for end-user choice, I would have a lot less problem than if Utah's
law is supposed to do only what the C|Net article says.
Of course,
"A spokesman for newly elected Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman..."
The key words here are "newly elected" and "Republican"** - and I think that
this might be more of a publicity stunt than anything else. Surely, if Huntsman
has any clue at all, he will not actually expect this law to stand, even if it
is passed.
> In the case of content filtering I do know of businesses and libraries
> that pretend to do it.
They're not the only ones, either. Plenty (if not all) school districts do it
too, including the one where my wife works.
**If you really must flame me for my opinions about the Goofy Old Party, please
do so in private email to me, not on the list.
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