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Old 03-15-2007, 01:47 PM  
kektex
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More anti-porn legislation bullshit

I dont know if this has been posted before,sorry if it has.
From http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/15/1224256
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"Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign a resolution urging Congress to enact the Internet Community Ports Act. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be 'clean' ? so-called Community Ports ? and others will be 'dirty.' Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs do the blocking for them[...]
More info: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/213120/
Check out this gem from the above article:
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"There is this assumption that you can't control it (the Internet)," Yarro said. "It's a toaster, we made it, we can fix it. ... We can solve the Internet pornography problem tomorrow if we decided to."
Yep this dumbass sure knows what he is talking about...
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