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Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Tue Mar 22 19:19:20 2005

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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