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

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. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional by toadlife · · Score: 0, Troll

    How are the Democrats against the second amendment?

    According to the most current interpretation by our conservative Supreme Court, the second amendment only allows for civilians to posses handguns inside their homes for self-protection.

    Prior to that, the court had ruled repeatedly that the second amendment gave civilians no right to posses firearms outside of the context of a government-run militia.

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  2. Re: ludicrously and patently unconstitutional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The second amendment does not represent an individual right, but a collective right for members of a well-regulated militia.

    Otherwise, out would be unconstitutional to have limits on other arms like missile launchers and grenades.

  3. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional by Uberbah · · Score: -1, Troll

    Venezuela is slouching into becoming a failed and bankrupt state.

    Actually, they've tripled their GDP while lifting millions of people out of generational poverty. They also have an ideal climate for agriculture - if they wouldn't have to out-subsidize American crops dumped into the market below the cost of production.

    It's the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere.

    It's #3, after Honduras (thanks Hillary, thanks Obama!) and El Salvador.

    It's a complete shithole.

    All the shit is due to western imperialists in the U.S. and rich/bourgeois traitors in Venezuela.

    Venezuela, as a basically Communist country

    You wouldn't know communism if zombie Stalin and Castro took turns kicking you in the balls. Venezuela's economy is still overwhelmingly capitalist - what was socialized was the oil industry. But that's interfering with the god-given right (and the petrodollar) to have profits sent to colonialist shareholders in other countries.