[78845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Mar 24 01:51:40 2005
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:38:58 -0500
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF690F4E5B.6A4CBEDE-ON80256FCD.003A6898-80256FCD.003AF885@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On March 23, 2005 at 10:44 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com) wrote:
> Finally, someone who recognizes what this bill is
> all about. It merely asks ISPs to provide parents
> with a filtering tool that cannot be overridden by
> their children because the process of filtering takes
> place entirely outside the home.
>
I assume one can opt out of this statutory filtering
voluntarily. What's to stop their children (think teens not infants)
from doing that as easily as they might disable a local filter?
Ok, require ISPs to figure out how to secure against that, password
management or whatever. Oh good, another arms race as kids pass around
how to by-pass the filters at school...I know, use unlimited national
cell rates to dial an out of state ISP. Or find a remote proxy to
use. etc. It's not very hard, and if one kid figures it out the others
just have to follow the formula.
I have a better idea, why doesn't the Utah legislature just outlaw
cancer. Wouldn't that do a lot more people a lot more good? Are those
lawmakers in favor of people, CHILDREN!, suffering and dying of
cancer? Shame on them!
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