Anti-porn bills in 8 states could force device makers to censor sexual material

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And we just had a thread about NCOSE recently:

Cartoon Pornography: A Serious Threat to Our Children

For those that don’t know, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is, as Wikipedia puts it, “an American conservative anti-pornography organization”. They believe that all forms of pornography is harmful to society. Not just CSAM, but also legal adult porn. According to them, pornography may lead to real abuse and most of the pornography found on the Internet today would be considered “obscene” under American law, which would make it “not protected speech”. While I agree that there…

I don’t have anything in particular to add, so, um…

@Jigsy

Benjamin Bull, the general counsel for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said that when he crafted the language of the original model bill, it was designed to narrowly address the issue of child access to internet pornography in a way that avoided potential court challenges.

Because if they can’t ban pornography, they’ll try to restrict access to it as much as they can, apparently.

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“We gave it to some constituents in Utah who took it to their legislators, and legislators liked it,” Bull said.

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“I mean, almost on a daily basis, from constituents, from legislators. ‘What can we do? We’re desperate. Do you have a model bill? Can you help us?’ And we said, ‘as a matter of fact, we do,’” Bull said.

Yeah, that sounds promising…

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“I think it’s just that Big Tech doesn’t want to be regulated,” Walker said. “We have to convince legislators that there is an appropriate amount of regulation in every industry.”

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“There are no restrictions as such on how providers can then use this data for other purposes. So even the sort of age verification aspect of this, I think, both creates burdens and gives rise to privacy concerns,” Jain said.

No no, see, it’s going to make all the difference, for them:

@Jigsy

“I think we have to recognize that filters like these certainly with current technology are far from perfect. They can’t distinguish, you know, for example, nudity that’s prurient or of a sexual nature versus nudity that’s for artistic or other purposes, which the bills at least purport to exempt from regulation,” Jain said. “So any requirements put in filters, necessarily will mean that those filters will catch lots of images and other material that even the authors of the bill would say shouldn’t be restricted.”

Well, to be fair, lolicon IS art. But, will it be regulated? What are the chances of that happening? Probably high, right?