Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

Tue Mar 22 18:29:09 UTC 2005

...this bill... requires the attorney general to establish and maintain a database, called the adult content registry, of certain Internet sites containing material harmful to minors...
...$100,000 from the General Fund to the attorney general, for fiscal year 2005-06 only,
to establish the adult content registry...

They are going to create publicly accessible, highly available database service of the all the world's porn sites and maintain it with up to the minute data... with 100K.  Right. 

Seems like a more rational answer to Utah's pr0n phobia is for a certain religious entity to publish their own net-nanny software/service for their parishioners.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Rachael Treu
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:35 AM
To: Bill Woodcock
Cc: Richard Irving; Roy; Fergie (Paul Ferguson); nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:33:44AM -0800, Bill Woodcock said something to the effect of:
> 
>     > > It's also voluntary on the part of the service provider.
>     >    What !?!  Surely you Jest!
> 
> Uh, yes, I was joking.  Unfortunately, I do believe, on credible evidence, 
> that there are people stupid enough to be trying to legislate the 
> operation of the Internet without having first understood how it's done 
> right now.  Case in point.
> 
>                                 -Bill

What do you mean?!  I'm writing an email right now to my 
service provider, demanding that I get *only* porn.  I 
want all pr0n, all the time.  No need to wast bandwidth
on this smtp garbage, or any other http-type hooey, for
that matter.

I want my OPoIP (only porn over IP)!  I want it secured,
even!  Encrypted porn with an SLA I can wave SLA about if 
anything else slips through like pesky news or children's
pages or something icky.

Are you telling me my provider reserves the right to 
refuse me this service?  <sniff>

--ra  ;)

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k. rachael treu, CISSP                          rara at navigo.com
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