Huntsman to sign anti-porn resolution

Found on Daily Herald on Wednesday, 14 March 2007
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A government study last year showed about 1 percent of Web sites are dedicated to it, but more and more employees -- and children -- are stumbling across it, and looking for it.

The resolution states that current filtering technologies cannot do enough to stop access to porn, as some employees and children actively seek ways to bypass filters on their computers.

Instead, lawmakers have suggested that Congress work to change the nature of the Internet and allow for an "adult content channel" and a "family content channel", which would separate out the different types of content and allow filtering at its source.

"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."

A toaster. A toaster with a series of tubes; and it's not a truck. Seriously, why do people try to regulate things that go way above their heads? Even if the most unlikely would happen, and all porn websites in the US will be moved to eg port 69, it wouldn't help. Simply because adult webmasters from all other countries on this world won't care abotu that law; they don't have any reason at all. In fact, they would be stupid if they did, because with the US industry wiped away, their revenues increase.