[78740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Mar 22 12:19:32 2005
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:18:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42404FD5.4080808@garlic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> The measure, SB 260, says: "Upon request by a consumer, a service provider
> may not transmit material from a content provider site listed on the adult
> content registry."
>
> Its entirely voluntary on the part of the consumer.
It's also voluntary on the part of the service provider. Of course no
one would be so foolish as to try to legislate the operation of the
Internet without having read RFC 2119, and anyone familiar with that
document would understand the difference between "MAY not" and "MUST NOT".
:-)
-Bill
