Friday morning, a subcommittee of the Utah State Legislature unanimously passed a Resolution (H.C.R. 3) Urging Congress to Stop Interent Pornography to Children and Employees. This resolution would put the US Government on notice that the people of the State of Utah want something done about Internet pornography.
The resolution will go to the floor for a vote some time in the next two weeks. If you want to help stop Internet pornography, please call your state representatives and let them know you want them to approve H.C.R. 3: Resolution Urging Congress to Stop Interent Pornography to Children and Employees.
What a stupidly written resolution….
WHEREAS we list the many reasons why porn is impossible to prevent, therefore we RESOLVE to pass the buck to the feds – State’s rights? Never heard of them, not interested.
Why are we paying Mr. Daw’s salary?
I have to agree with ed42. I don’t quite see what this accomplishes other than letting the U.S. congress know that Utah is concerned about pornography, something I’m pretty sure they already know.
Forgive the Limbaugh reference, but this is classic symbolism over substance.
Why not sponsor a bill that attempts to actually do something in the state of Utah about the problem? Appropriate funds to subsidize research in filtering technologies? Subsidize purchase and support of existing filtering technology for Utah families and employees? Start a program to increase awareness of existing filtering technologies. I don’t know, I’m just brain-storming, but I suggest the state legislature focus on trying to improve things rather than wasting time with policy statements like this resolution.
These aren’t just hollow words. This resolution lays a groundwork for bills ready to enter on Capitol Hill. One is to establish a technology-based solution to create a clean port on the Internet. See CP-80 Internet Channel Initiative at cp80.org.
So, we are throwing out an open internet in favor for a Great Firewall of s/China/the United States?
How are we going to enforce this on the rest of the world? Because unless we get the rest of the world to sign on it will never work.
More legislation, that forces ones moral beliefs on others, is not the answer. Parents need to take responsibility for raising their Children.
There’s a lot of good filtering software out there (MStar is one)that parents can use to shield their children form internet smut. Filtering isn’t perfect, the location of a computer is key, it should never be in a bed room (I believe President Hinckley said something to this effect).
Government needs to be very small. Government should never implement moral values into public policy. Installing moral values into children is the ultimately the job of Parents, and in our case, the Church.
Lest we forget, it was Lucifer that wanted to force everyone to follow his way (legislate moral belief), he told people to ‘think of the children’ (all of us are children to God). It was Jesus who told us we would have choice and that the consequence of that choice was not all of us would be saved.
The Gospel is a Gospel of choice not force. I fought for that principle in the world before this one, and will continue that fight here in this world, and the world to come.
A problem with cp80 is defining porn in the first place. Wasn’t it BYU that refused to display Rodin’s “The Kiss”? Who decides what is art and what is porn? [The answer “community standards” is not technically compatible with cp80].
Thanks, Michael for you comments. They summed up my thoughts.
Parents, not the state, not the federal government should be the first line of defense against pornography. In my website I have listed 8 quick steps that Parents can do to protect their kids and 10 easy ways that malware can infect your computer. Malware is often the culprit that pop-ups sex ads in your child’s faces. My web-site also has a neat movie that instructs younger kids about Internet dangers.
Parents, not the state, must exercise responsibility.
The resolution is an important step that other states will hopefully follow. You would think that protecting children from Internet porn would be obvious to many politicians–but its not. They want to know that the public they represent want something done. They need to hear the outcry.
The CP80 solution is a solid solution that accounts for every possible circumstance, including world governance.
The Internet is not a force of nature after all. It is a man-made widget, that can be changed / evolved for the betterment of all.
It is a sham the we put up with it the way we do. If pornography flowed over our television sets with the same volume as it does over the Internet, the state and federal agencies would have that problem straightened out in about 2 seconds.
Yet the Internet remains a bastion for some of the darkest, most violent and disturbing porn available anywhere in the world.
And our children are accessing it. Forming ideas about sexuality from it.
It is rediculous.
Support the resolution in this state and other states.
Support the CP80 Internet Channel Initiative.