Thu, 19 Mar 2009

Mormons demand ICANN plugs net smut hole

Three idiotic things here: first off, the effort is led by the guys who tried to claim copyright on Linux, which was, pardon the pun, patently false. Secondly calling port 80 a "smut hole" is beyond bizarre - and expecting to "block" or filter it (as a port) in any effective fashion to screen porn is absurd, especially by ICANN, which only controls DNS. But the killer:

Utah is 58 per cent Mormon, and according to a recent study has the highest consumption of internet pornography of any US state, boasting an average of 5.47 porn subscriptions per 1,000 broadband users.

I think my irony meter is permanently broken now ...

Mormon anti-pornography activists led by SCO Group chairman Ralph Yarro III are calling on ICANN to give more political clout to those who want to kick porn off the web.

(link) [The Register]

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On 3/19/2009 12:22:40
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