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Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:16:05 -0800

Were I running an ISP of which Utah subscribers were not a large portion
of my customer base, I would probably seriously consider simply
disconnecting
all of my Utah customers.

Owen


--On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:18 AM -0800 Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
wrote:


    > The measure, SB 260, says: "Upon request by a consumer, a service
provider     > may not transmit material from a content provider site
listed on the adult     > content registry."
    > 
    > Its entirely voluntary on the part of the consumer. 

It's also voluntary on the part of the service provider.  Of course no 
one would be so foolish as to try to legislate the operation of the 
Internet without having read RFC 2119, and anyone familiar with that 
document would understand the difference between "MAY not" and "MUST NOT".

:-)

                                -Bill




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