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SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks

Posted by Zonk on from the but-i-thought-the-internet-was-*for*-porn dept.

cachedout writes "SCO's Ralph Yarro had the floor yesterday at the Utah Technology Commission meeting in front of Utah lawmakers. Yarro proposed that free wireless sites and subscribers should be held responsible should any porn be delivered to minors because hotspots are apparently where kids go to watch porn all day long. Yarro told lawmakers that open wireless access points should be made a crime because we have an Internet out of control."

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  1. Ah come on... by tibike77 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is *anybody* taking SCO seriously nowadays anymore ?
    And I don't mean /. readers, I mean the "average Joe that heard of SCO once, in passing".

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    1. Re:Ah come on... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I wonder if SCO is actually the good guys playing devils advocate with the courts. Taking cases that they know will be lost in order to set a precedent in future cases that may not be quite so blatantly dumb.

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    2. Re:Ah come on... by Nullav · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Banning free access points because of the possibility of children looking at porn... Does this mean he's going to try to get all use of the Internet banned in the US? After all, you can look at porn with most any connection.

      Why not just ban children next?

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    3. Re:Ah come on... by damsa · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Ironically, porn is illegal in Japan, South Korea and China, a lot of help that does to curtail porn use.

  2. The Bubble (Utah Mormons vs Non-Utah Mormons) by sadler121 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is how non-utah mormons refer to Utah mormons. Most likly there is a reason we decide to not live in Utah and that is because the people are very backward. They can not think for themseleves, and have to be told over the pulpit how to think.

    Mind you this is not the religion Joseph Smith re-organized. He made it clear man has to get knowledge from God, not from man. The current state of Utah Mormonism is due to years of isolation. Utah Mormons form a tight cliche and as a result, it is hard to break into that cliche for those who are not Mormons, or recent converts into Mormonism.

    Sometimes I think if would be good for Utah Mormons to actually leave Utah, and live somewhere else where Mormons are in the minority. Then they would be forced to live with people who do not agree with them, and be able to expand there knowledge of the outside world.

    At least that is why I am not in Utah.

    (I served an LDS mission in Salt Lake City, which would take a novel to even summerize).

  3. For the children you say, SCO? by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then maybe you would take a good look at removing the legitimized kidnappers from your state, if not to have the authorities prosecute them for their deeds.

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