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Rhode Island senators introduce bill to require ISPs to block “sexual content”

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Can we please make it to the polls to vote out these small-minded people?

Cool. Are they going to ban VPNs next? What about https? Even in China it's pretty easy to get around 'the great firewall'.

Then there's ipv6 which gives a site the amount of proxies equivalent to molecules on earth.

Blackists never work. Whitelists do but then you no longer have the internet.

It's adorable when baby boomer politicians try to mess with tech affairs...

Rhode Island is really making it hard to get off these days. Less than a decade ago they outlawed prostitution. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Rhode_Island

"First they came for the jerkers..."

As much as im all for for personal freedom and I don't like to see goverment influence ISPs - in this particular case I'm all for making adult sites harder to access via paywall or whatever. There is nothing good about porn being freely available to everyone, especially growing up kids. Porn simply destroys families, lives and relationships.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4354970/Men-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/11/11/does-pornog...

https://www.thespruce.com/is-pornography-destroying-your-mar...

Censorship is evil, no matter the content.

Those links are garbage, unscientific opeds. They add nothing to the conversation. Lucky nearly all of the world has moved past this ignorance.

thats very near sighted view on your part. are you a parent? if so - are you being evil by protecting your kids by installing a filter on their digital devices? i thought so..

if you read the article there is a peer reviewed article link in there regarding normality of female abuse in porn.

As someone who lives in a country full of easily accessible porn and prostitution, I can promise you the kids here are as depraved as they are anywhere else (that is to say, not very).

I consider censorship a much greater threat to people's lives than pornography.

i agree with censorship being evil.

all im saying - porn does not add anything productive to the society. Instead its full of abuse and destructive influence on families, relationships and young adults growing up today.

> porn does not add anything productive to the society.

Disagree.

Plenty of people enjoy porn healthily, married couples included.

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