Utah BANS ALL Internet Porn (NOT A joke)

[JamboGuide]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/032405utahPorn.htm

[aquart]

1. How?

[whistle]

2. Does anyone have a internet porn site address based in Utah?

[tuvor]

3. Banning? That's not what the story's about.

The word "ban" appears only in the headline. The first sentence of the article says:

Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has signed a bill that requires the state's Internet service providers to offer customers a way to block supposed "adult" sites.

Doesn't sound like a ban to me.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Good luck, idiots!

[donheld]

5. Your thread title is a bit misleading

The bill does NOT ban all porn. What it does is require ISP's to provide a way to block porn. The fear indeed, is that ISP's would use this as a way to block other things, but that would make for a big court fight.

[tuvor]

6. The thread title is totally misleading.

But JamboGuide's title was based on the article's title.

ON EDIT: Welcome to DU, JamboGuide! :hi:

[Jack Rabbit]

7. It requires that ISPs provide ways of blocking porn

Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has signed a bill that requires the state's Internet service providers to offer customers a way to block supposed "adult" sites.

The bill goes into effect immediately.

Note to Aquart: How? was my first question. Obviously, there would be no way to actually prevent it from coming in over the Net.

[JamboGuide]

8. But there .....

ALREADY IS a way to block porn! PARENTAL CONTROL! CyberNanny etc etc. Hell AOL has parental control so i dont see the POINT.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. That is the point

ISPs in Utah will have to provide a filter.

The concern expressed from the article, which runs on a LGBT website, is that the same filters can block websites that aren't pornographic, such as those that provide news to the gay community.

[Paul Hood]

9. It doesn't sound like they're banning it .

Salt Lake City, Utah) Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has signed a bill that requires the state's Internet service providers to offer customers a way to block supposed "adult" sites.

The bill goes into effect immediately.

The legislation is opposed by First Amendment advocates who say it violates the Constitution.

The bill is aimed at protecting children from Internet pornography, but could be used to block sites offering sex education and sexual health information. The filters could also prevent LGBT news and information sites like 365Gay.com, or personals and chat sites from reaching homes in the state.

more at link in OP.

[onager]

11. Oh, yeah?

The Independent Theocracy Of Utah is always trying stuff like this. And it always ends up shooting itself in the...uh...foot:

(While the site calls itself "an LDS lampoon," the story was true and widely reported at the time.)

PROVO, Utah -- The video-store chain that Larry W. Peterman owned in this valley of wide streets and ubiquitous churches carried the kind of rentals found anywhere in the country -- from Disney classics to films about the sexual adventures of nurses. Peterman built a thriving business until he was charged last year with selling obscene material and faced the prospect of bankruptcy and jail.

Just before the trial, Peterman's lawyer, Randy Spencer, came up with an idea while looking out the window of the courtroom at the Provo Marriott. He sent an investigator to the hotel to make a record of all the sex films that a guest could obtain through the hotel's pay-per-view channels. He then obtained records on how much erotic fare people here were buying from their cable and satellite television providers.

As it turned out, people in Utah County, a place that often boasts of being the most conservative area in the nation, were disproportionately large consumers of the very videos that prosecutors had labeled obscene and illegal...

It took only a few minutes for the jury to find Peterman not guilty on all charges. His case illustrates what has happened to an industry that used to be confined to the margins of commerce, in the seedy parts of most towns, run by people who never dreamed of taking their companies to Wall Street.

http://www.latterdaylampoon.com/foyer/porno/

[Paul Hood]

13. I was replying to the article linked in the op.

But thanks for the link. I hadn't thought of Kathleen Beller for years.

[edbermac]

10. Who needs porn when you're practicing polygamy?

That's the religion for me...Hallelujah! Praise God!

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Isn't Utah like #1 for PPV Hotel Room Porn?

Really fun to follow the money on one that too. Repressed societies can't get enough of the naughty stuff.