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Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the nickel-and-dime dept.

If a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session, Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online. The bill, introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone (D-Providence) and Sen. Hanna Gallo (D-Cranston), would require internet providers to digitally block "sexual content and patently offensive material." Consumers could then deactivate that block for a fee of $20. The Providence Journal reports: Each quarter the internet providers would give the money made from the deactivation fees to the state's general treasurer, who would forward the money to the attorney general to fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking, according to the bill's language. If online distributors of sexual content do not comply with the filter, the attorney general or a consumer could file a civil suit of up to $500 for each piece of content reported, but not blocked, according to the bill.

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  1. Democrats have been doing this shit for years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While this is an egregious example both of why the R's are 'on paper' against taxes, there have been similiarly stupid shit by D's in other places, the most hilarious being California, like that one Representative, Asian-American, in the Bay Area who was pro gun control... because he was helping with illegal gun trafficking in the region...

    There are also Boxer, Pelosi, Feinstein and co with their pro-surveillance security theatre while also being pro-privacy for themselves (I don't remember the specifics but someone flew a drone over Feinstein's house with a video camera on it? Irony much?)

    At this point in time people really need to purge the partisanship and then purge the partisan politicians. If America is to survive it needs its people focusing on the issues we CAN agree on and getting legislation on them enacted, then revisit the hot button issues once we have other parts of our house in order. And for fucks sake, both former sides need to stop dicking around on pressing issues and trying to use them to push those non-pressing issues through. Save those and debate on them for when you have nothing better to do with your time!

  2. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh great so the secret Service, FBI, CIA, SWAT, PD, ATF aren't allowed to own guns now? Hint none of them are "government controlled militia". This should be fun to watch!

  3. What if the porngirl is 16 but it's before curfew? by argStyopa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pretty sure Rhode Island still has that law that it's ok for a stripper to be as young as 16...as long as she's home before curfew.

    Yep, there it is : http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

    Ah, America.

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    -Styopa