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Jim Lippard's avatar

"SB1125 would allow parents to blacklist their IP addresses from porn sites in an attempt to keep their kids off them." I hate it when people who know nothing about how the Internet works try to legislate like this. Filtering by IP address is neither scalable nor effective when most people have IP addresses that are dynamically assigned, easy to change, and VPNs are easy to use. If parents want to filter porn, it's much, much easier for parents to do it on their side using a firewall or web proxy and DNS filter, which persists over dynamic IP changes. There are still ways to get around it (e.g., VPN or use of a mobile device!), so there's no substitute for having conversations with kids and managing their device use.

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Nick's avatar

I'm so sorry I wasn't able to read this this morning, but I am so happy to read it this evening. So many funny things to note. To wit (DeWit?) -

1) Congratulations to the Art Intern for finally getting the lack-of-diversity right in the picture.

2) God is probably confused because all Rs think that they are God's guy/gal.

3) Are you sure the tabulating machines were from Gila County? Not Cochise County?

4) Did Liz Harris mean to say "pre-orchestrated" or "conspiracy?"

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