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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And which party would that be?

[PopeRatzo]

A bill, pre-filed earlier this month by state lawmaker Bill Chumley

Without looking, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "state lawmaker Bill Chumley" is a Republican. Just a wild hunch that any politician who wants to have a government-mandate that computer manufacturers must include a porn filter on all new computers must be a member of the party that believes in "small, limited government" and "deregulation".

Re:Don't forget

[saloomy]

It's this fallacy that free markets can't fix what regulation can that puts us in trouble. Of course the free market can fix this. In no place is it unregulated and free to operate. It is however better to have a relatively free "regulated" market, than only a black market.

Supply would meet demand once the price stabilizes.