Bill calls for porn block on computers sold in South Carolina

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https://www.cnet.com/news/south-carolina-bill-porn-digital-block/

A newly proposed law in South Carolina, called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, would make it illegal to sell a computer without a porn filter ... unless you pay the state a fee.
The bill, pre-filed this month by state Rep. Bill Chumley, would require manufacturers or sellers to install digital blocking capabilities on devices to prevent the viewing of obscene content. This applies to computers as well as hand-held devices that can access the internet.
Sellers can avoid the filter by paying the state a $20 opt-out fee for every device sold. Buyers who want to lift the filter after purchasing a device can also pay a $20 fee -- after they request in writing the filter be disabled, verify they're 18 or older and acknowledge receipt of a written warning about the potential dangers of disabling the blocker. So, you know, just a couple of hoops.

I wonder what they would call obscene? Are X Rated video rentals going to be regulated. Pay a fee and watch whatever you want? Maybe this bill won't pass.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/3003.htm
 

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https://www.cnet.com/news/south-carolina-bill-porn-digital-block/

A newly proposed law in South Carolina, called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, would make it illegal to sell a computer without a porn filter ... unless you pay the state a fee.
The bill, pre-filed this month by state Rep. Bill Chumley, would require manufacturers or sellers to install digital blocking capabilities on devices to prevent the viewing of obscene content. This applies to computers as well as hand-held devices that can access the internet.
Sellers can avoid the filter by paying the state a $20 opt-out fee for every device sold. Buyers who want to lift the filter after purchasing a device can also pay a $20 fee -- after they request in writing the filter be disabled, verify they're 18 or older and acknowledge receipt of a written warning about the potential dangers of disabling the blocker. So, you know, just a couple of hoops.

I wonder what they would call obscene? Are X Rated video rentals going to be regulated. Pay a fee and watch whatever you want? Maybe this bill won't pass.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/3003.htm
They might not be able to define it, but they'll know it when they see it.

Potter Stewart is looking down and giggling.
 

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https://www.cnet.com/news/south-carolina-bill-porn-digital-block/

A newly proposed law in South Carolina, called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, would make it illegal to sell a computer without a porn filter ... unless you pay the state a fee.
The bill, pre-filed this month by state Rep. Bill Chumley, would require manufacturers or sellers to install digital blocking capabilities on devices to prevent the viewing of obscene content. This applies to computers as well as hand-held devices that can access the internet.
Sellers can avoid the filter by paying the state a $20 opt-out fee for every device sold. Buyers who want to lift the filter after purchasing a device can also pay a $20 fee -- after they request in writing the filter be disabled, verify they're 18 or older and acknowledge receipt of a written warning about the potential dangers of disabling the blocker. So, you know, just a couple of hoops.

I wonder what they would call obscene? Are X Rated video rentals going to be regulated. Pay a fee and watch whatever you want? Maybe this bill won't pass.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/3003.htm
So, you're saying South carolina just passed a $20 porn tax?
 

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I'm not sure what this anti-porn ad is trying to depict.



But I think it shows children running away from this legislator who is trying to take away their freedom?
 

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Do you have to pay a $20 cover charge to go into adult video store in n SC?

I'm sick and tired of our government trying to legislate morality. Although this just seems like a lame way to pad the state budget. If the bill passes I wouldn't be surprised to see AL try the same, promising all the money would fix education.
 

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Do you have to pay a $20 cover charge to go into adult video store in n SC?

I'm sick and tired of our government trying to legislate morality. Although this just seems like a lame way to pad the state budget. If the bill passes I wouldn't be surprised to see AL try the same, promising all the money would fix education.
it's "trafficking" which is a real actual problem but becoming the new "won't somebody please think of the children" excuse to do whatever you want to collect revenue, especially against targets no politician would ever stand up for. In Ga it was the stripper tax, in SC it's Porn, in Alabama who knows sex toys? Got to love those small government gop'ers, what freedom can they protect us from next?
 
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Crimson1967

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I don't watch porn, but this is crazy. I can see people asking for a block if it is for a child but I don't think it should be mandatory.

I wonder how strong the block is. I have heard of porn blocks stopping people from researching breast cancer. I used to work as a substitute teacher. One day I was in the library and I heard a kid tell the librarian the computer wouldn't let him look up Charles Dickens.


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it's "trafficking" which is a real actual problem but becoming the new "won't somebody please think of the children" excuse to do whatever you want to collect revenue, especially against targets no politician would ever stand up for. In Ga it was the stripper tax, in SC it's Porn, in Alabama who knows sex toys? Got to love those small government gop'ers, what freedom can they protect us from next?
Oh, next thing you know the government will drive people they demanded have access to prescription narcotics into the arms of black market heroin dealers thereby causing overdose deaths to more than quadruple over the past decade. Frankly, I expect a similar result here of the opposite than intended effect. Because that is what happens when government interferes with freedoms like choosing what you put in your body or in front of your eyes.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

 

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If you stick to MILF and grandma porn, no children are harmed.

Your eyes, on the other hand...