{"id":7520,"date":"2018-04-13T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:19:43","slug":"rhode-island-lawmaker-pulls-porn-censorship-bill-citing-dubious-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/rhode-island-lawmaker-pulls-porn-censorship-bill-citing-dubious-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Lawmaker Pulls Porn Censorship Bill, Citing Its \u2018Dubious Origins\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Rhode Island lawmaker has a yanked a controversial porn censorship bill, citing its \u201cdubious origins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/state-lawmakers-propose-internet-censorship-under-guise-of-preventing-human-trafficking\/\">Human Trafficking and Prevention Act<\/a>\u201d (HTPA), versions of which are circulating in more than a dozen statehouses across the US, would require device manufacturers to install permanent internet filters that block pornographic content by default. To remove the filter, users will have to submit a request in writing to the manufacturer and pay a $20 <em>per device<\/em> fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As is the case with the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/uk-internet-censorship-policy-delayed-now-government-scrambles-figure-implement\/\">controversial porn censorship policy<\/a>, the bill is antithetical to privacy, as a data breach at the manufacturer could result in embarrassing information to leak publicly or be used as blackmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Rhode Island State Sen. Frank Ciccone \u2014 who pulled the bill from consideration bill on March 27 \u2014 did so because he claimed it had \u201cdubious origins,\u201d regional media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/news\/local-news\/lawmaker-withdraws-anti-porn-bill-citing-dubious-origins\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPRI<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often referred to as the \u201cElizabeth Smart Law\u201d after the girl who was kidnapped as a teenager in 2002, the HTPA, the bill is not actually affiliated with Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, Smart has sent cease-and-desist letters to backers of the bill, informing them that they do not have the authorization to use her name to promote the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In actuality, the HTPA has been drafted and pushed by Chris Sevier, a provocateur perhaps best known for a variety of lawsuits in which he protested the legalization of gay marriage by arguing that he should be allowed to marry his laptop (at least six such suits have been dismissed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, this is not the first time that individuals and organizations have demanded that Sevier stop using their names to promote the bill. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation \u2014 itself an anti-pornography advocacy group \u2014 demanded last year that he stop claiming that it supported the HTPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while having this porn censorship bill withdrawn is a win for privacy advocates no matter the justification, it\u2019s important to remember that the HTPA\u2019s problems extend far beyond an author with a controversial past and a proclivity to play fast-and-loose with claims that it has the support of certain individuals or groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather, it represents a fundamental breakdown in First Amendment rights, as well as the beginning of a government-sponsored censorship regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am not quite sure whether legislators really fully understand the nanny state this bill would create,\u201d Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in regard to the HTPA. \u201cNow what I find fascinating is I just don\u2019t understand how (Sevier) is pulling this off, like how he\u2019s convincing so many people to introduce this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhode Island lawmaker has a yanked a controversial porn censorship bill, citing its \u201cdubious origins.\u201d The \u201cHuman Trafficking and Prevention Act\u201d (HTPA), versions of which are circulating in more than a dozen statehouses across the US, would require device manufacturers to install permanent internet filters that block pornographic content by default. 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