Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet 627
girlchik writes "HB 3314, up for hearing in the Texas House State Affairs committee on Monday, would require the state to filter wireless internet access at highway rest stops. This bill mandates filtering at any state-provided wireless network on public property.
Since last May, the Texas Department of Transportation has offered wifi access at state rest stops. There is also wifi access at some Texas state parks provided in partnership with Tengo Internet.
This bill protects truckers at highway rest stops and campers in their RVs at campsites from adult content.
Sounds both wasteful and unconstitutional."
CB radios (Score:3, Funny)
Breaker, breaker (Score:5, Funny)
Well this is great news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CB radios (Score:5, Funny)
THANK GOD! someone is finally protecting the nations truckers from adult content.. this is particularly good for all those underage truckers. We'll definately want to get those CB's filtered, as well as payphones, cellphones and conversations in diners. It might take a lot of work, but eventually we'll get everything clean clean clean.
Then we can start to work on preventing Male Trucker Lactation [bugshit.com]
Obscenity definition (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Texas state constitution - nothing about net (Score:2, Funny)
I can't find anything about requiring access to the entire internet if you provide access to some of the internet.
It's section 8.
Didn't look hard, did you?
I'm feeling all protected inside! (Score:3, Funny)
Protects Truckers (Score:5, Funny)
You know what delicate flowers truckers can be!
Re:hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
No kidding. I bet this has less to do with preventing porn (impossible) or stopping illegal activities (good luck) than protecting the legislators chances of getting re-elected
Anyone willing to take a stand against truck-stop masturbation must be worthy of your vote...
Here you go! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Truckers will crack system (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks, I'll go wash my brain out with bleach now to get rid of *that* image.
Time to switch to instant (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great, thanks a lot! Now I won't ever be able to look at filtered cofee the same again!
Re:Same for Municipal WiFi? (Score:2, Funny)
The majority rules when it comes to representatives, and it rules when it comes to local law (in some cases) as long as, and *only* as long as it doesn't violate the constitution.
You do realize you just described a constitutional democracy, right?
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:I dunno about both. (Score:3, Funny)
Its so sad seeing the great US of A being buried under the tide of politically incorrect rubbish available on the internet
If the state pays for it then the state should be in control of it. Though idealy the best way to deal with the problem would be to monitor all of the transactions all of the time and to detect those truckers abusing the service.
The proper course of action would then be to imprision them without trial and re-educate them. I'm sure modern interrogation techniques accompanied by powerfull psychotropic drugs, regular beatings, poor food and watching all their relatives being burned to death would ensure that they did not misbehave again.
I just cannot understand why a poor third world nation like China can be better at this sort of thing than the USA. I blame lax moral standards myself, its about time god fearing christians got organised and butchered all those heathen non-believers, theres just too many of them. This is another place where the US is falling far behind the progressive modern world - when was the last time a christian suicide bomber killed, mutilated and maimed dozens of supposedly innocent young people in a coffee bar?
Its time the USA pulled its socks up and imposed some decency on the internet before it becomes the laughing stock of the world.
Re:CB radios (Score:2, Funny)