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Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy

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Re: Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy

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bb88 wrote: post #60
aerotwelve wrote: post #43

Point of personal privilege: I am so embarrassed that Iowa is on that list. If your state happens to be listed, please remember to vote in November. There has to be serious electoral consequences for every politician who thought it was a good idea to put their name on such an abhorrent piece of legislation. Freedom of speech is not an in-app purchase.

Really, that makes you embarrassed? Not US Rep. "McCarthy was an American Hero" Steve King? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-iowas-embarr... Not giving gun permits to the blind? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-g... Not the Iowa State Basketball Coach making out with the coeds? http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_37ac54e3-06c1-563... THAT... THAT embarrasses you about I…

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Post by jononor »

justonepost wrote: post #59
interfixus wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> * all parents want more easy control* Refuted. I am a parent. I do not want 'more easy control'.

Really? You don't want to be able to easily ensure that your pre-teens aren't able to easily access violent porn? Alright, I guess "all" is little hyperbolic. But I think the sentiment stands firm. I also think we need to avoid censorship as much as possible, and ensure parents have more control by default is the best path forward. Otherwise we'll end up with a solution like the UK has where age registration has to b…

Aren't there hundreds of parental control applications available out there already?

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Post by russdill »

ball_of_lint wrote: post #33
russdill wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget that most new phones have locked bootloaders and cryptographically secure boot processes. If lawmakers required manufactures put a piece of software on every phone, it would be technically possible and very difficult to bypass.

What about phones that have already been bought? You can easily get a phone today that runs an open source OS and boatloader: As bad as this bill may be, I doubt they could justify confiscating all of them, but short of that there is no way to enforce that law. Similarly with computers - with a law like this in place Linux cannot exist.

It's not about controlling all the people, it's about controlling a significant percentage of people.
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