[78754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Mar 22 13:05:39 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, Roy <garlic@garlic.com>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:39:39 PST."
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:02:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <20050322173939.4F2F45D08@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes:
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>The law does not require that pr0n be blocked on customer request, only
>that access to a list of sites (addresses?) on a published list be
>blocked. A very different beast and a task that is not too onerous. No
>more so than SPAM RBLs and bogon address RBLs if handled properly.
>
That is, in fact, similar to a Pennsylvania law that was struck down by
a Federal court. CDT's analysis of the Utah law is at
http://www.cdt.org/speech/20050307cdtanalysis.pdf
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
