Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites

Mon Mar 7 04:45:56 UTC 2005

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.

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