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ACLU to Challenge Utah Porn-Blocking Law

Posted by timothy on from the solicitation-of-censorship-should-be-actionable dept.

delirium of disorder writes "Opponents of a Utah law that requires Internet service providers to offer to block Web sites deemed pornographic filed a lawsuit last Thursday to overturn the measure. The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is seeking an injunction in federal court in Salt Lake City as part of its lawsuit claiming that the Utah law violates state residents' rights to free expression and unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce. The legislation requires the attorney general to create an official list of Web sites with material that is deemed harmful to minors. Under the law, Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges."

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  1. Obvious question... by Infinityis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs porn when you're allocated 10 wives?

    1. Re:Obvious question... by RealAlaskan · · Score: 3, Funny
      Who needs porn when you're allocated 10 wives?

      Have you seen their wives?

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    2. Re:Obvious question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Okay, all you little closet mormons (now there's a word with an extra 'm') need to stop being so offended and realize that it's a FREAKING JOKE. For crying out loud, Joseph Smith may have been a thief and a con artist, but he certainly didn't steal your sense of humor.

    3. Re:Obvious question... by winse · · Score: 5, Funny

      That reminded me of something I read once:

      Our stay in Salt Lake City amounted to only two days, and therefore we had no time to make the customary inquisition into the workings of polygamy and get up the usual statistics and deductions preparatory to calling the attention of the nation at large once more to the matter. I had the will to do it. With the gushing self-sufficiency of youth I was feverish to plunge in headlong and achieve a great reform here - until I saw the Mormon women. Then I was touched. My heart was wiser than my head. It warmed toward these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely" creatures, and as I turned to hide the generous moisture in my eyes, I said, "No - the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure - and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence." Mark Twain

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    4. Re:Obvious question... by Trifthen · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Well you know, Brian, even ugly girls have pussies."

      Sadly, this is not always the case... :(

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  2. Mormon Pr0n? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet there is a lot of girl on girl on girl on girl on guy action

  3. Let me get this straight. by geek_xyu · · Score: 3, Funny

    First China now Utah.. Yea I guess that sounds about right.

  4. Easy Solution by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Under the law, Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges."

    I suggest that all Utah ISP's implement this with feature with a link from their home page "Click here to disable access to pornographic web sites" that leads directly to the ISP's account termination page.

  5. Re:I'm sympathetic by memfrob · · Score: 5, Funny
    Personally, I'd like to see a law that makes it illegal for adult context to appear on a URL unless is has a special extension, something like ".xxx". Then it'd be easy for concerned parents (and wives!) to configure the browser to block anything from that extension.

    What about IP-based URLs?

    (http://127.0.0.1/ is FULL of pornography!)

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  6. Re:I'm sympathetic by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about IP-based URLs?

    (http://127.0.0.1/ is FULL of pornography!)

    OMG! You're right... NICE FIND!!!

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  7. Re:OK, now..... by Skye16 · · Score: 4, Funny

    More importantly than any of this crap: how do I get to become a porn czar?

  8. Re:Hmm by v01d · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about tackling the cause rather than the effect?

    Puberty?

  9. Re:The PR0N MUST FLOW! by JVert · · Score: 1, Funny

    What? thats the stupidest thing i've ever heard. Yes porn is a required stub of TCP/IP but only to verify its content, if you lookup the correct RFC, the pr0n but is found directly after the evil bit. Using this bit you can determine if this packet has porn in it and can react accordingly.

  10. Re:OK, now..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    The earth is 6000 years old!
    Have multiple wives!
    Block all pr0n!

    What a fucked up state.

  11. Re:I will give you the real explanation as an insi by wcbarksdale · · Score: 4, Funny
    It is painfully obvious what the ACLU is really going after here. They are protecting the rights of businessmen to show pornography to minors and clobbering a parent's right to guard their kids from pornography.
    Yes, just as the ACLU must love Nazis, since they argue for their right to protest. HIDE YOUR BABIES BEFORE THE ACLU GETS THEM!
  12. Re:OK, now..... by shotfeel · · Score: 4, Funny

    They just need to have the ability to filter those sites listed by the AG

    Just out of idle curiosity, I wonder where one applies for the job of surfing the net looking for porn sites to add the *ahem* "Black List" in the AG's office.

  13. Re:Few nitpicks... by whitehatlurker · · Score: 2, Funny
    He happens to be very good at both but finds ancient languages more interesting.

    So, for his PhD, he's working in Algol, APL and Fortran? (Given my .sig, I should include BCPL. I won't.)

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  14. Re:The PR0N MUST FLOW! by ajs · · Score: 2, Funny

    So how does that fit in the OSI model? Is it:

    1. The Physical Layer
    2. The Data Link Layer
    3. The Network Layer
    4. The Transport Layer
    4.5 The Pr0n Layer
    5. The Session Layer
    6. The Presentation Layer
    6.5 The Presentation of Pr0n Layer
    7. The Application Layer
    8. The Financial Layer
    9. The Political Layer

  15. Re:OK, now..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's a simple one.

    Blind stupiditiy = Blind stupiditiy

  16. Re:I'm sympathetic by ubugly2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK Unless you like weird donkey and tenticle jello wrestling porn....sick bastards.