Ports for Porn Utah law proposed (old news - 09:07AM Monday Nov 28 2005) tags: software · content · networking
According to the Deseret News (via Slashdot), one Utah businessman and his non-profit organization want to pass a law limiting pornography for use only over certain ports. From the article: "By assigning adult content to its own channel or channels, CP80 (clean port 80) avoids the pitfall of previous legislative attempts to clean up the Internet: violations of the First Amendment. "We had to preserve freedom of speech," says the developer, "and that's what we've done."