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admoseremic
12/31/08

In reply to FCC Removes Porn-Blocking Restriction From Nationwide Free Wi-Fi Proposal
I'm not usually pro-censorship, but a porn filter may not have been that bad of an idea. Considering almost 90% of all internet traffic is porn related, I'm not too keen to have so much tax money paying for porn bandwidth.

Although, I'm also not too keen on nation-wide WiFi at all. The less the government is in charge of the better IMO.
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LastAndLeast
12/31/08

@admoseremic: Is that another one of those 95% of statistics that's made up on the spot?
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katch-22
12/31/08

@LastAndLeast: I guess so. Googling I found the following:

[www.technewsworld.com]

19% of all traffic is porn-related. This isn't actual bandwidth stats, though, just sites visited.

In any case, I'm agreeing with admoseremic here--why should my tax dollars go to someone's desire to wank? Srsly.
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ripfire
12/31/08

@katch-22: Tell that to the people viewing porn in public libraries.

Besides, how often is anyone actually going to make use of 10kbps internet access? "Srsly."
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