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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."
I went back to the source article. It basically is a suggestion to require that certain filtering software be installed by manufacturers or pay $20 per box which would go to fight anti-human trafficking. The software is not required to be used or even turned on by default, and evidently can be removed.
But its more fun to make this a censorship play.
False. Most (well over 80%) of the porn in the world is of legal, registered, willing participants and is produced in Southern California.
...they'll crack down on or eliminate social services programs. "Of the more than 11,800 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2015, one in five were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 74 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing." http://www.missingkids.com/Key...
Also, there needs to be a real investigation into why there are so many missing kids from Virginia... http://www.missingkids.com/Sea... Somebody tell me again how #pizzagate is fake news...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
No it isnt.
I live in a country where prostitution is legalized. Human trafficking is still a huge problem. The sex trade is not something women consider to be a job option: sex is a personal thing. Demand far outstretches supply. Legalization and free market will not magically fix things.