Pennsylvania Law Requires ISPs to Block Child Porn

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 19, 2002 @08:40AM from the here's-your-whitelist-for-the-day dept.

feed_me_cereal writes: "Salon has an article describing a new law in Pennsylvania which requires ISPs to prevent access to child pornography on the internet. Under this law, the government can give ISPs a list of websites to block. Failure to do so can result in fines from $5,000 to $30,000 + jailtime. While stopping child pornography sounds noble, it seems that these powers will do little to meet this goal and much to allow the government to decide what websites are suitable for public viewing." Reader lightspawn provided this link to the law itself as well as another story at freedomforum.org.

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linux a solution? by vircum · 2002-03-19 08:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is why we need linux on the desktop now. With the new 2.5 kernel under development, linux will soon be poised to take over the desktop computer world and prevent censorship with its open-source power. We need to send the world a message that we will not stand for the censorship imposed by governments controlled by proprietary software companies. Linux and GNU software is an indispensable ally in preventing censorship and blocked sites. We of the free world should be the first to implement an operating system which will have no feature allowing this type of evil censorship. Die propietary software die!