> 22 public interest groups roast FCC smutless broadband plan
> By Matthew Lasar | Published: July 29, 2008 - 08:55AM CT
>
> They may not agree on net neutrality or the Fairness Doctrine, but
almost half a dozen advocacy groups from liberal to libertarian do
concur on one issue: they hate Federal Communications Commission Chair
Kevin Martin's proposal for a national broadband service with the porn
filtered out.
> "Unconstitutional and unwise," their Friday filing calls the plan,
which they charge amounts to a "government mandated 'blacklist' of
websites." The filtering component would limit the system "so
dramatically that the usefulness of the service would be radically
reduced." Plus, if the agency actually approved the scheme, it would
face a tsunami of lawsuits.
>
> Read on: http://tinyurl.com/6phwoz
What's smut? What's porn?
To some of those nuts, the paintings in the Louvre, or Museum of Modern
art are porn. So is this,
http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=2468733 [after the
woot-off], or http://naturist-holidays-uncovered.co.uk/naturist.htm.
Don't forget John Ashcroft hiding Lady Liberty's boobs, like the boob
that he is. Also some "porn filters" doesn't allow access to medical
information about breast cancer.
First it's "porn" next it's politics, religion, important news, and who
knows what else? The local Marantha church radio here broadcasts the
most hateful programs I've heard in a long time. Their athletes wear
head to toe sweats for games; cheerleaders wear sweaters and
floor-length skirts, yet the sermons in their tent meetings [you can
hear them in the neighborhood] are all about hate, sin, hell, damnation,
bigotry, racism, censorship, xenophobia. Will people like this dictate
the filters? Will the hideous people in Texas who tell textbook
publishers what kind of censored books our children should read in
school dictate the filters?
Those pathetic, ignorant, repressed souls can buy filters for their own
computers, and can also take the time to study the Constitution.
"Unconstitutional and unwise" only scratches at the surface of their
problems!
Betty
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