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- 97thfloor, on 02/06/2008, -1/+193If you need your Government to control your child's porn surfing you are a sorry A%$ parent
- Cheesehead3557, on 02/06/2008, -0/+136Wait. Let me get this straight. This group thinks that because a page asking for a minor's age doesn't stop kids from looking at porn that an open wi-fi asking for their age will somehow get them to enter it truthfully? Beyond this has anyone found a filter that can actually keep porn from being accessed?
I don't even want to think about the technical problems involved in this. - rugby4ward, on 02/06/2008, -2/+65Dude, Utah is a horribly backwards state. I was there in December skiing at Deer Valley and couldn't get a double shot of Scotch on the rocks. I said "can I buy 2 and pour them together," the bartender said if I did so she'd have to ask me to leave. What the *****?
- blackmage439, on 02/06/2008, -9/+56Yes, there are ways to block it: by filtering it through an expensive portal that must be updated constantly. Even then, proxy sites and Web annonymizers degrade the effectiveness of such technology.
In essence, this boils down to two of the greatest problems facing this country:
1. Overzealous, right-wing, religious, ignorant, nut jobs flashing their political muscle. They're just keeping up the Christian doctrine of censorship of the truth and punishment for dissension, i.e. "masturbation causes blindness and sends you to HEYALL!!!!!"
2. ***** parents crying foul when their child "wanders" into an Internet chat room populated by child molesters and "accidentally" views porn. BULL. *****. I would like to know where the hell these people are finding "bogus" links and these "chat rooms." What the hell are these kids doing? Are they just signing on to AIM and joining the first channel titled "I_LIKE_LITTLE_BOYS"??? Can someone explain this to me? My little sister isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even she has NEVER seen porn on the Internet. EVER. She's smart enough to do a Google search for "Disney" and "Nick.com" and come up with nothing but the actual site. WATCH YOUR ***** KIDS YOU DUMB-***** PARENTS.
I fear for the continued sanity of the human race if this keeps up. Before long, we'll have a government trying to turn us into obedient zombies, ala Serenity... (Wait, forgot about the "Thought-Crime Bill"... Make that ARE turning us into zombies...) - BlockDaddy21, on 02/06/2008, -1/+38I think we just go ahead and ban the internets entirely.
- signal15, on 02/06/2008, -1/+35I have a kid on the way now. Porn is the least of my worries to what he will be exposed to on the internet.
I grew up looking at Hustler's and Penthouse taken from my friend's parents, and I turned out just fine. - ObeseSnake, on 02/06/2008, -3/+33News flash! Mormons don't like the porn on the internets!
- smackhero, on 02/06/2008, -0/+25plus it discourages people from sharing their wifi, an altruistic action that should be encouraged if anything. and i wouldn't be surprised if Ralph Yarro starts some kind of Wi-Fi content-filtering service so that he can turn a profit on this forced censorship.
why not just force parents to put content-filtering software on their child's computer instead of punishing individuals who provide a generous service to neighbors/the community? - jeexbit, on 02/06/2008, -0/+24Why stop there? let's also go ahead and some up with some fool-proof way to verify age every time someone turns on a TV... You know, for the sake of the kids.
- joklem, on 02/06/2008, -1/+23I'd just give him the good bookmarks.
- enderiii, on 02/06/2008, -2/+24The only way to stop kids from looking at porn is to put out their eyes.
- Sle3per, on 02/06/2008, -2/+20Acutally, Mormons are Utah and Branch Davidians are Waco.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 02/06/2008, -0/+18The obvious solution to that requiring a biometric scan before using the internet . You will be required to go into the DMV so they can put your thumb print in an 18+ database.
If you are opposed to this, it means you are for children looking at porn. Think of the kids!!! /sarc - SirFragsMore, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17Part 2 of the bill. If you live in Orem and your next-door neighbor's kid uses your open WAP to look at pictures of naked women, you could find yourself on the hook for a $1,000 fine.
So there is no fine if there are only naked men? - bundwallah, on 02/06/2008, -5/+22Attention Teenagers of America!! Do not look at porn!! But, please do join the Army and get shipped out to hell on earth!!!
- eon42, on 02/06/2008, -1/+18protecting young boys from pr0n? i fail to see how it is dangerous for them... ??
- Error601, on 02/06/2008, -11/+28Anything that starts with "a bill introduced" is non-news.
- qber, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17Seriously. There are far worse things an innocent kid can be exposed to in the world than sex.
- ShadowSK, on 02/06/2008, -0/+16Yeah, good luck trying to regulate that.
- rendersan, on 02/06/2008, -0/+15Congressmen who introduce bills "just to make a point" waste all our time, especially when they try to regulate things they don't understand.
Next up: all tubes on the net must be painted blue. - incizion, on 02/06/2008, -0/+15I heard a rumor that Utah has a lake. With salt in it.
- dondara, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14No *****. I would rather have them watching porn then watching Saw or some other gore fest. Nothing wrong with sex but violence is not something I would want them desensitized to.
- HypocriteDigg, on 02/06/2008, -6/+20Utah is also trying to pass a law to ban the sell of cold beer in grocery stores. You could still sell warm beer, just not COLD beer. Let you tell you, mormons are waco.
- PRlME, on 02/06/2008, -7/+21i let my lil bro look at porn that way i figure he wont be gay
- kingp, on 02/06/2008, -4/+1710 to 1 that someone will make a Mormon comment. Any takers?
- coldcarbon, on 02/06/2008, -2/+15No, They love porn they just don't like to admit it. EX-Mormon here. and I am EX because I like to admit I watch pron now :)
- Chompy, on 02/06/2008, -1/+14Utah sucks, is full of crazies. News all 11.
- earlycj5, on 02/06/2008, -1/+12Already happened. Look up.
- getatmedigg, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11Sir, do you have a license for that penis?
- meez, on 02/06/2008, -2/+13Force parents to filter their child's net access? How old are you talking about here? Anyone below 18? Teenagers watch porn, it's fact, and shouldn't be treated as "teh evil."
Best way to lose a kids trust? Install monitoring/filtering software on their PC. - airiox, on 02/06/2008, -2/+13Welcome to Utah, where people hide behind their religion and Republican badge to push communist legislation on it's citizens.
- Nougat, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11Ports are like TV channels? No, ports are locations which tx/rx traffic using various protocols. Port 80 is almost always used to carry HTTP (web) traffic, but you can put any type of traffic you like through it, so long as both the sender and the receiver agree that they're going to use that port for the specific protocol.
Computers and the internet are just that. They are not television or an interstate highway system or plumbing. Good lord I can't wait until someone - anyone - gets elected - to any office - who has any idea about how the most useful and broadly used technology in the history of mankind next to the lever actually works. - hqwildcard, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10My wife came from Utah and she is MMmmmm MMmmmm Good!
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'nuff said. - anarchyinthekr, on 02/06/2008, -1/+11I'm from PC and there is an article in the Park Record about revising the liquor laws to increase the size of shots so maybe there is hope...
also Deer Valley is a piece of ***** mountain for rich ***** who don't know how to ski and just want to look good so you should probably have gone somewhere else - coldcarbon, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10NOPE, They are still there, just in the deep south of Utah. I lived in Utah for about 20 years. When you go do south there are whole towns full of them.
- Liquidboarder, on 02/06/2008, -4/+14Nothing will stop kids from watching porn... whats wrong with porn anyways ? Better they watch porn than vandalize buildings...
- silentdragoon, on 02/06/2008, -2/+12And I'm from Mac...
- v0lrath, on 02/06/2008, -1/+11You just did
- coldcarbon, on 02/06/2008, -1/+11or make them watch 2girls1cup. cure them right up
- leefnaspleaf, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10I hate stupid ***** politicians who are proactive simply for the sake of being proactive. Like an entrepreneur who sees an open niche in the market, these jackasses just look for any goddamn goose chase that might earn them some kind of recognition or attention.
They presume to be the most educated people in our society, but all they really know how to do is spew second-hand rhetoric about ***** that's way way over their heads. - Brundy, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9just wait until someone sues a random hotspot owner over internet content. "My kid saw bewbs on your hotspot!"
Then it'll be much bigger than a technical problem. that could take the issue beyond mandatory filtering and age verification, to making an ISP (or worse, a wireless router owner) responsible for the content of every byte that passes over a connection. that's way beyond a technical problem and on to typical mindless stupidity coming from the imbeciles in government riding the "let's protect the children!" angle at any cost leading to a flurry of lawsuits which could effectively censor the internet beyond practical use.
Meanwhile parents who refuse to control their own kids and buy them anything defer to government to raise them, and we wonder why kids have no discipline and work the system to their advantage! - fixty, on 02/06/2008, -1/+10This is WTF in the hilariously preposterous sense.
- HonestAbe, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9That's not really the point, but yeah.
- BlockDaddy21, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9Comment dugg for "bam! boobies."
- ChoiceMad, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9My new favorite exclamation... "Bam! Boobies!" ha ha thx man.
- eighties, on 02/06/2008, -0/+8The wifi access point owners should also verify social security and credit card numbers.
You know, to make sure that illegal immigrants aren't using those access points. - Diancechet, on 02/06/2008, -1/+9FTA " Rep. Daw appears to have finally realized the problems the current wording of his bill would cause. Daw told the Tribune that he may pull the age provision from the bill in favor of a filtering requirement—even though he realizes that filters aren't completely effective either."
So its not even a debated bill he wants to basically rewrite the controversial part - inactive, on 02/06/2008, -0/+8Apparently this guy has never used the internets he should try it out. How about its up to the parents to control what the child does. What happened to that?
- meez, on 02/06/2008, -4/+121984, Serenity, and ranting about totalitarian governments? Umm... a sure way to get diggs!
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