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Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content

Posted by Zonk on from the regulating-reality dept.

tipsymonkey writes "Cnet is running an article on how the Utah governor is considering signing a law that forces ISPs to filter content deemed harmful to minors. This would apply to large scale ISPs like AOL as well. They have until March 22 to decide whether or not to sign this into law."

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  1. Re:Lemme get this straight... by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm NOT modding you down, JUST so that I can reply to you... why exactly, I'm not sure...

    Polygamy is illegal in the state of Utah, those who pratice it are violating law and are getting in crap for doing so. Please stop trolling and pretending, as we follow the laws of the land, regardless.

    Mormons have not praticed polygamy for a very long time. Stop saying that we do, please.

  2. Re:Lemme get this straight... by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Yes, polygamy is officially illegal, and still persists relatively unscathed despite the laws. The law exists in large part to satisfy Congress, which was mighty concerned about a polygamist state entering the Union. The facts are the facts, and in Utah, polygamists largely go unmolested by the authorities.

    You can pass all the laws you like, make bold declarations that those breaking the laws are lawbreakers, but unless someone starts prosecuting the laws, it's all just posturing. That's all Utah is doing, posturing for the benefit of the largely Protestant Congress.

    Come back when the Attorney General of Utah starts instructing state law enforcement agencies to star bringing in the polygamists. Then I'll buy into the assertion so many in Utah make that it is a non-polygamist state. Until then it's nothing more than public relations for the benefit of the rest of the Western world, which finds polygamy, particularly the child-abusing kind practiced by Mormon splinter groups, to be abhorent.

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  3. Re:Lemme get this straight... by statusbar · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe not officially Mormons anymore, but, a bit more history is here:

    This polygamist community, which is part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has lived in British Columbia for well over fifty years. Its history can be traced back to the Mormon community in Utah. When the official Mormon Church banned polygamy in 1890, authorities stepped in and began to round up and jail those who openly defied the edict. A splinter group wanting to practice polygamy fled into the desert and established a settlement that came to be called Colorado City on the Utah/Arizona border. Another group traveled up to Canada and set up a polygamist community near the present day town of Cardston, Alberta. In Canada, Ottawa declared polygamy a criminal offence and in time their lifestyle began to disappear.

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  4. Re:One possible solution by sadler121 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See my previous post.

    As for the Main Street deal, that was a simple misunderstanding about what was sold to the church and what was not. The Church bought the property fair and square, justly compensating the city for the property. When it was found out in court that the easement was not sold to the Church, the Church again made a just offer to the city for the easement. It was a business deal nothing more.

    The Mormon Church does not control Utah. Mormon's control Utah, NOT the Church. Many (read: 99%) of Mormons are mislead in that they are mere sheep who can not even fan tom what their religion really means to them. Mormonism is an intellectual religion. The religion was founded on asking questions, and missionaries from the Church encourage thoughtful contemplation of the meaning of life in respect to the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.

    As a disclaimer, the 99% refers to Utah Mormons. Yes there is a deference, Utah Mormons live in what Mormons outside Utah call 'The Bubble' and are sheltered from real life. Mormons outside of Utah tend to be a lot more accepting of others beliefs then the Utah Mormons.