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Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites

Posted by chrisd on from the that'll-keep-them-from-the-bad-stuff dept.

jkastner writes "Salon is reporting that Pennsylvania is forcing ISPs to block web sites that have child porn. While we can all agree that child porn is bad, this sort of approach starts us down a slipperly slope. If one site slips through, does that make the ISP liable? In addition, the court ordered blocking may prevent access to legitimate sites that are hosted on the same server."

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  1. Re:Most ISPs can't even block spam.... by aridhol · · Score: 4, Informative
    However, couldn't I still connect with 0102.043.0372.01 (66.35.250.1 in base 8)?
    No, that wouldn't work. By the time the IP address gets out of your computer, it's no longer a set of four 8-bit numbers, but a single 32-bit number. So the routers that are blocking the address just have to match up the IP address in the header, as a single 32-bit number, or more likely as a masked 32-bit number (network instead of host).
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