Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content

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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Re:Lemme get this straight...

[ScytheBlade1]

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.

Re:Lemme get this straight...

[MightyMartian]

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.