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I dunno if this is really true. It just popped up. But, true or not, the intention to gag free access to information is there. Today they target pornography. But they already now attack EVERYTHING by their attempt to "block every piece of content on the entire internet that is "patently offensive". Pornography is only a means to get this into the politics machinery. But the real intention is clear: to silence anything which is not on their "allowed" agenda. And they will not allow much. That you can be sure of...

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/06/s-2584.html

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 Cory Doctorow / 1:05 pm Tue Mar 6, 2018
Rhode Island proposes blocking all online porn and charging $20 to unblock it
FROM THE BOING BOING SHOP

Rhode Island Democratic state Senators Frank Ciccone (@senatorciccone) and Hanna Gallo (@hannagallo27) have proposed grandstanding, unworkable legislation, "Relating to Public Utilities and Carriers—Internet Digital Blocking" which would mandate the state's ISPs to identify all the pornography on the internet, and then block it for all Rhode Islanders, unless those Rhode Islanders specifically requested their porn to be unblocked and paid $20 for the privilege.

The law also requires ISPs to identify and block every piece of content on the entire internet that is "patently offensive" and to block access anything prostitution or human-trafficking related.
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