South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: People buying new computers and devices in South Carolina would be blocked from accessing porn under a newly proposed law. A bill, pre-filed earlier this month by state lawmaker Bill Chumley, is called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, and would require computer makers and sellers to install filters that would prevent users from accessing porn and other sexual material. The aim is to prevent access to sites that facilitate prostitution and trafficking, Chumley told a local newspaper this weekend, which the state has struggled to curtail in recent years. "If we could have manufacturers install filters that would be shipped to South Carolina, then anything that children have access on for pornography would be blocked," Chumley reportedly said. "We felt like that would be another way to fight human trafficking."

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In other news...

[Macdude]

In other news, South Carolina law makers prove they have no idea how computers or the internet work.

Re:In other news...

[zlives]

pretty sure computers were made by Dinosaurs directed by jesus

Re:In other news...

[AthanasiusKircher]

If so, it would mean anyone who buys a computer and installs Linux Mint (non-South Carolina version) on their PC has now broken the law.

Hey, don't knock Linux Mint South Carolina edition! Actually, it's known in the South as the Linux Mint JULEP edition. I've been using it ever since Version 1.0 ("Anti Abolition"), though it really only came into its own in the third version ("Commendable Calhoun"). The recent LTS versions ("Slightly Secessionist" and "Somewhat Segregationist") are really terrific!

You do have to get used to the quirks, though. I used to use the Gnome edition, but South Carolina deprecated that, since it sounded too much like "genome," and that sounded too close to evolutionist talk. I tried the new desktop environment OPPOSITE-SEXED-SPOUSE (the equivalent of MATE), but ultimately I decided to go with the KKKDE edition.

There are some cool South Carolinian features, such as:

-- "Tux" the Linux penguin is replaced by Cocky the USC Gamecock mascot.
-- The GIMP has a boot-up image of Preston Brooks caning Charles Sumner in the U.S. Congress, with Sumner limping away on his gimpy leg.
-- LibreOffice isn't... quite so "libre," if you know what I mean.
-- In honor of the Baptist teetotalers, WINE is renamed SWEET TEA.
-- My favorite feature -- the messenger Pidgin automatically converts your messages to appropriate creole dialects for the state. Main choices include "Gullah," "Redneck," and "Antebellum Plantation Owner," but if you insist on keeping your standard modern English, there's a selection "Godless Cityfolk" for you.

I'd highly recommend y'all give it a try!

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[Anonymous Coward]

I started a petition at Goa Tse Justice to force Congress to dock South Carolina's state status and demote them to a territory. Home of Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham, 'nuff said! The drivers there all do 10 under the speed limit and apply their brakes if you flash your lights. More material of Miss Teen USA not knowing how to form complete sentences under any circumstance. And she's basically their elected queen as of 2007.

Translation

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers"

Translation: "South Carolina Lawmaker Bill Chumley Is A Fucking Idiot"

No surprise it's from South Carolina, where the state motto is, "At Least We're Not Louisiana"

Re:Good luck with that

[JoeMerchant]

That would be bootlegging, that never happens in the South.