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SCO Chariman wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free
by Decius at 3:29 pm EDT, Mar 16, 2007 |
The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to do something about the rising tide of Internet pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in a ghetto where those who don't want to see it don't have to do so. The resolution, which passed both houses of the Utah legislature, was backed by CP80 ("Clean port 80"), a group founded and headed by Ralph Yarro. CP80's plan to cleanse the Internet isn't the only controversy that Yarro's involved in, though; he also happens to chair the board of directors for SCO.
OK, its official. SCO doesn't just hate linux. They hate the entire Internet. "The Internet is not a force of nature, it's a man-made creation. It can be changed and evolved to better serve us all," said Yarro in a statement after the signing of the resolution. "There is no reason why we should tolerate an Internet that allows children to easily access pornography."
Someone has been reading Lessig... And getting exactly the wrong point. What, exactly, is the problem with filtering software? CP80's solution would apply to the US only, of course, and their plan for dealing with international pornographers (who are unlikely to move to another port dictated by the US) is a simple but draconian one: consumers would ask ISPs to "simply block all IP addresses originating from a non-compliant country." Problem solved!
Instead of clamoring for legislation that forces anyone who says the word fuck to move to a different TCP port why don't they just ask pornographers to include an HTML meta tag on their pages. Not authoritarian enough? Doesn't generate revenue for our financial backers by creating a government mandated market for their software systems? Its just not any fun if its Constitutional? Sure, you won't get 100% compliance, but you're not going to get that anyway. This page really erks me. The Internet Community Port Act (ICPA) protects your right to publish, view AND block content deemed inappropriate to minors - a choice that you do not have on the Internet today.
You can install Internet filtering software. ICPA supports the use of widely accepted social and legal standards, such as MPAA, RIAA, ESRP, FCC, the legal definitions for obscenity, indecency and harmful to minors, or any other community-defined standards.
In other words, anyone who says the word fuck would have to move to a different TCP port. Its very important that children don't hear the word fuck, because it harms them developmentally, as opposed to the word shucks, which is just a word. Did I mention that Unicorns are real? Categorization Is Not Censorship If categorization were censorship then phone books, libraries, street signs and all oth... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]
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RE: SCO Chariman wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free
by Nimbus at 2:26 pm EST, Jan 15, 2008 |
You know, I won't lie. I can understand why they might want to move their porn away from precious port 80. It's be soooo much easier to put it on some other port so it can be filtered by your home router... Hey does anyone know how to configure a router? I can almost guarantee these same idiots that support the legislation don't :P But then, if proper meta-tagging was used, all you would need to do is set your I.E. content settings. They've existed for how many release versions? Let's face it, the whole thing was probably started because little bobby-jo or his sister bobby-sue were searching for sandboxes on google at a school with no form of filtering and voila. Porn at school! Or maybe they had to use a simple bypass for their lax school network's security like typing "https://" instead of "http://" Which let's face it, answers the real problem with their solution of "clean port 80" over proper education that they shouldn't view it at school because their teachers don't know what sex is and will be offended by it. It's just that easy to forward a port to something else, set up a web proxy and now boom all of my port "6969" (porn) traffic is on port 80 before it reaches my school. Coming from a registered U.S. IP, and all seems fine and dandy until Mr. Thompson walks by and has a heart attack. So again, I can understand their misguided prayers for a clean port 80. But ultimately it will hold no avail, even if they did manage to pass such inane legislation, every school aged child has learned how to set up their own proxies by now. Time's like this I'm glad to live in Canada, where a person isn't afraid to put on devil horns grab his girl friend smear her in ketchup and reach for the biggest butcher knife they have when Jehovah's witness come walking up the drive. "Hey Joe! You got the sacrificial alter ready? Oh hello can I help you? We were just about to start mass, care to join us?" Decius wrote: The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to do something about the rising tide of Internet pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in a ghetto where those who don't want to see it don't have to do so. The resolution, which passed both houses of the Utah legislature, was backed by CP80 ("Clean port 80"), a group founded and headed by Ralph Yarro. CP80's plan to cleanse the Internet isn't the only controversy that Yarro's involved in, though; he also happens to chair the board of directors for SCO.
OK, its official. SCO doesn't just hate linux. They hate the entire Internet. "The Internet is not a force of nature, it's a man-made creation. It can be changed and evolved to better serve us all," said Yarro in a statement after the signing of the resolution. "There is no reason why we should tolerate an Internet that allows children to easily access pornography."
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Utah wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free
by Acidus at 6:40 am EDT, Mar 16, 2007 |
The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to do something about the rising tide of Internet pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in a ghetto where those who don't want to see it don't have to do so. The resolution, which passed both houses of the Utah legislature, was backed by CP80 ("Clean port 80"), a group founded and headed by Ralph Yarro. CP80's plan to cleanse the Internet isn't the only controversy that Yarro's involved in, though; he also happens to chair the board of directors for SCO.
"I'm pretty sure if they took all the porn off the Internet there would only be one site left, and it would be called 'Bring Back the Porn!'" -- Scrubs. "The Internet is not a force of nature—it's a man-made creation. It can be changed and evolved to better serve us all," said Yarro in a statement after the signing of the resolution. "There is no reason why we should tolerate an Internet that allows children to easily access pornography."
And let's just ban television, because there's no reason that we should tolerate a world where kids can turn on Cinamax at 10:30pm on a Saturday night and watch erotic trillers. Ahhh Skinamax... you gave me the porn before the Internet did... CP80's solution would apply to the US only, of course, and their plan for dealing with international pornographers (who are unlikely to move to another port dictated by the US) is a simple but draconian one: consumers would ask ISPs to "simply block all IP addresses originating from a non-compliant country." Problem solved!
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Utah wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free
by k at 1:54 pm EDT, Mar 16, 2007 |
And let's just ban television, because there's no reason that we should tolerate a world where kids can turn on Cinamax at 10:30pm on a Saturday night and watch erotic trillers. Ahhh Skinamax... you gave me the porn before the Internet did...
Of course, violence is fine. That's not TV or internet, but the fault of video games. CP80's solution would apply to the US only, of course, and their plan for dealing with international pornographers (who are unlikely to move to another port dictated by the US) is a simple but draconian one: consumers would ask ISPs to "simply block all IP addresses originating from a non-compliant country." Problem solved!
Grand. Utah, meet the humble Ostrich. Fucking Utah. My favorite Utah quote :
"How the Mormon settlers looked upon this valley and felt that it was the promised land is beyond me. I don't know, maybe it looked different back then." --Stevo, SLC Punk |
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