Year End Tech Sales and Paying for Porn? | #PNWeekly 232

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A bill in South Carolina would force consumers to pay a fee to access pornography from any computer purchased in the state. HTC is prepping a big announcement for January, but will Samsung launch the Galaxy S8 later in the year?

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Will People in South Carolina have to Pay to Access Porn?

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Don’t call it a tax, call it a fee for pornography. And if you buy a computer of any sort that connects to the internet, — hello, smartphones, tablets and maybe even wearables — then you might have to pay up soon.

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Pay your government to access porn says proposed South Carolina law

Posted on by Jules Wang

Don’t call it a tax, call it a fee for pornography. And if you buy a computer of any sort that connects to the internet, — hello, smartphones, tablets and maybe even wearables — then you might have to pay up soon.

The South Carolina General Assembly is looking over a draft of a bill that would require device manufacturers and retailers to either install a filter program that blocked out pornography or pay $20 per unit without the filter — adults who desire to seek pornography on a filtered device would pay the government that fee to have it removed. Proceeds would go to a state task force battling against human trafficking.

Representative Mike Burns authored “The Human Trafficking Prevention Act,” which is on the agenda for the assembly for the coming year. He believes that watching pornography leads to a slippery slope of behavior that can turn criminal.

“If your device comes and it’s predisposed, first, to filter out this kind of stuff, you wouldn’t see some of the stuff that normally a kid or an adult could be able to see,” Burns said.

A bloc of upstate legislators have backed the bill, which is pre-filed, but not on the docket for the upcoming session.

“This is a way to preserve freedom, not raise taxes and combat a serious problem all in one,” said Representative Bill Chumley, one of the amendment’s supporters.

The filter would block out material dubbed obscene by state and federal definitions and would also have a flag-down system for people to use if they come across unblocked obscene material.

Burns and Chumley are both Republicans in the Republican-controlled Palmetto State. The national party issued a crusade against porn as part of its platform this year.

Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions […] We urge energetic prosecution of child pornography, which is closely linked to human trafficking.

Utah has deemed pornography a “public safety hazard.”

Opposition to the bill is pushing against what it considers an act of government overreach in terms of not only free speech, but also interstate commerce in imposing a burden not set by any other state or federally.

The government mandate of material filtering combined with the shaky definition of obscene subjects as well as the possibility for user-conspired abuse that would block otherwise “safe” subjects is also of concern.

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Off-beat: could Utah’s crusade against porn be another Apple v. FBI in the making?

Posted on by Jules Wang

The same lawmaker that had the state of Utah recognize that pornography is a public health crisis is back at it. This time, Senator Todd Weiler is working on three bills that would force Utahns to opt-in to access X-rated materials online. Some of them would require filters be installed onto smartphones and tablets.// 0&&(d-=1)}),s.on("internal-error",function(t){i("ierr",[t,(new Date).getTime(),!0])})},{}],3:[function(t,e,n){t("loader").features.ins=!0},{}],4:[function(t,e,n){function r(t){}if(window.performance&&window.performance.timing&&window.performance.getEntriesByType){var ...

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Off-beat: man dies in highway crash, drove while watching porn

Posted on by Jules Wang

Time and time again, we’re reminded of why we shouldn’t be driving while interacting with our phones. The carriers keep telling us not to. One automotive group in Canada is incentivizing people to keep it on the ten-and-two. After all, what’s so important on that little screen that should drive your attention away from driving?For one man,

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Off-beat: the internet is for mobile porn (but what’s new?)

Posted on by Jules Wang

Are we getting a little too comfortable with pornography these days? After all, we do have access to it with a few taps on glass. Furthermore, the instant socialization and crowdfunding of user-generated pornography has made nude selfie trading normal. But in terms of putting a number to all this triple-X, how much is there?One porn industry analyst estimates that there could be between one and five million porn sites on the web.A Juniper Research report from a few months ago says that by year’s end, more than 136 billion videos will have crossed eyeballs in 2015. It forecasts 193 ...

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