Maryland (Republican) lawmaker wants to force ISPs to filter out porn
 

Maryland lawmaker believes he has come up with a simple, cost-free way to block online pornography, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter David Collins reported.

The solution? Calling porn what it is by adding "dot sex" to the end of the Web site address.

"Dot sex" would be easy for computer filters to weed out because the material would be flagged at the Internet service provider level, the port where online information travels. That way, material adults deem unfit for children wouldn't find their way into schools, libraries or home offices, Collins reported.

"They [ISPs] will be able to afford to do this because they could sell those names, ... [they would be] able to sell that name for what the market would allow that money would be used to put in these filters," Smigiel said.

The bill is being filled as a commercial law, not a criminal matter. ISP providers who do not comply would be fined $1,000 per violation.

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4113407/detail.html

This is exactly what those against .xxx warned about. These anti-U.S. Constitution types want to be able to force ISPs to filter out porn. For now they say just at schools, libraries or home offices, but why would they stop there? And why do "home offices" need to have porn blocked? What about adults having a right to decide what they want to do in their homes?

That will never fly.

how long will the uneducated in this biz hold up goofy law makers as an example of what's to come.

Here's a clue: There are at least 100,000 people in the country that could be considered "lawmakers"
all but the top 600 are powerless.

grow up.

so when the majority of the 600 think its a good idea to use .xxx or similar....



:(

you're 10, aren't you?

what a douche