Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content

tipsymonkey writes "Cnet is running an article on how the Utah governor is considering signing a law that forces ISPs to filter content deemed harmful to minors. This would apply to large scale ISPs like AOL as well. They have until March 22 to decide whether or not to sign this into law."

If this gets passed...

[orkysoft]

Imagine this bill getting passed: you'd get incredibly slow-loading pages, because ISP employees would have to preview every single webpage for offensive material.

Oh, and SCO would just get blocked ;-)

Slashdot.org

[ergo98]

For the sake of maintaining the Utah readership, hopefully this isn't signed into law.

Does the -

[thewldisntenuff]

First Amendment still apply in this country anymore?

Let's do it the other way around...

[broken]

If Utah was taken off the Internet, would it make a sound?

Utah....

[artoffacts]

Where the internet is offensive to polygamists.

Re:Slashdot.org

[Anonymous Coward]

Why bother with Slashdot when they can just block goatse.cx? : )

Those mormons

[nxtr]

What will they think of next? Here's a list [wildutah.net].

Re:Does the -

[Mad_Rain]

Does the First Amendment still apply in this country anymore?

Dude, when your comment is moderated as "Funny" I think it sends a pretty clear answer to your question.

Maddox

[sh1ftay]

Looks like Maddox is going to have to move to a different state ;)

Re:Let's do it the other way around...

[swiftstream]

Then we must decide... is it worth losing Ebay and Overstock to get rid of SCO?

(Alright, alright. SCO isn't just an internet based company...)

Re:Those mormons

[Anonymous Coward]

That list is so false it's not even worth rebutting.

Particularly item 23.

Utah and Christians

[Passman]

Iran and China are NOT christian. That's what's different..

Neither is Utah. They are Mormon.

Mormonism has about as much in common with christianity as Islam does, or the Branch Davidians for that matter.