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U.S. wants to take porn off the Internet

by on23 June 2008

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FCC will not let us be


Federal Communications Commission Chair, Kevin Martin, seems to be targeting porn as something he would like to take off the Internet.

While the agency's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNOPR) advocates "public access to free, nationwide, high-speed wireless broadband Internet services using a portion of the winning bidder’s network in the 2.1GHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum," there are a few things that might have sneaked under the wire.

In the middle of the press release about sales, there are references which, if carried out, would squeeze porn content out. A free broadband service would be required to provide a  network-based filtering mechanism for the free Internet service in order to protect children and families.

This includes a feature that "filters or blocks images and text that constitute obscenity or pornography and, in context, as measured by contemporary community standards and existing law, any images or text that otherwise would be harmful to teens and adolescents." The outline defines teens and adolescents as "children 5 through 17 years of age."
Last modified on 24 June 2008
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