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What's hilarious about this is that you can get around the blocks if you pay the government a fee. You've got to love the party of "small government" and "family values." Throw some $$$ our way and we'll forget that we pretend to be either.
This will be a great victory, no replacement for the ACA, no wall, no tax reform but at least there is a porn tax! Yet another accomplishment in the first 100 days, this is amazing!
Don't forget my poor ISP can now make some money to support its meager profit margins and sell my browsing history. Thank god we fixed that problem! #MAGA
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This is what a Republican majority looks like folks. Are we winning yet?
I wonder what self-righteous sanctimonious prig would be given the honor of determining just WHAT constitutes porn? My suggestion would be start with the lackluster performance of Congress vs. their paychecks, that's obscene to me!
Where are all the dissenters when it comes to taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, soft drinks, coffee, gambling and fast food?
None of those tax the internet. Think more broadly. Why not tax certain websites while we're at it? Certain browsers? Tax per post? Heck my ISP hates Netflix, let's tax it so I buy cable again.
Just because a bill has been filed does not mean it is going anywhere. It will die in the House or committee.
And such idiotic bills have been introduced by both democrats and republicans.
Below is the Human Trafficking Act that is being proposed in several states. Here is the first paragraph of said act.
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Prohibits covered businesses from manufacturing, distributing, or selling certain devices unless device contains active & operating filter that blocks Internet access to specified types of sexually oriented material, prostitution, assignation, lewdness, & human trafficking; provides for injunctive relief for violations; provides requirements for consumer to have such filter deactivated; requires filter deactivation fee & provides forcollection & distribution thereof; prohibits distribution or sale of certain devices without filters to minors & adults; requires covered businesses torespond to reports of obscene material that has breached filter; requires covered businesses to unblock nonobscene material; exempts certainwebsites from filtering; authorizing Office of Statewide Prosecution to prosecute violation
Wow. This sounds like something that third world Muslim countries would do.
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