Rhode Island Wants to Charge People $20 to Access Internet Porn
Source – Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online if a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session.
A bill introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone, D-Providence, and Sen. Hanna Gallo, D-Cranston, on Thursday would require Internet providers to digitally block “sexual content and patently offensive material.” But, consumers could deactivate that block for a fee of $20.
Each quarter the internet providers would give the money made from the deactivation fees to the state’s general treasurer, who would forward the money to the attorney general to fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking, according to the bill’s language.
If online distributors of sexual content do not comply with the filter, the attorney general or a consumer could file a civil suit of up to $500 for each piece of content reported, but not blocked, according to the bill.
This is just the 10 billionth example that proves my theory the greatest document ever written is the Bill of Rights. God knows the Constitution has its flaws (slavery, the 3/5 compromise, Article 46 of the NFL bylaws). But those first 10 amendments don’t empower the government, they tell the government what it can’t do to us. Which is still a radical notion to most of the world and an unhealthy percentage of people in this country. So I can only imagine how revolutionary it was 2 1/2 centuries ago.
And you know who would’ve been furious about this power grab by the otherwise great state of Rhode Island? The men who wrote the Bill of Rights. Senators Ciccone and Gallo can’t tell me for one second that Ben Franklin wouldn’t have enjoyed “French MILF in Sexy Stockings Gets Creampied” or Thomas Jefferson wouldn’t jerked it to “Busty Ebony Teen Rides Older Man” every chance they could. And they’d be horrified at the thought some legislators would decide it’s the proper use of government power to get between the governed and their private enjoyment of quality porn. That’s how you take citizens and turn them into subjects.
And get a load (pun intended) of this loony money grab idea. We’re not saying you can’t access porn, you can have all you want for the low, low price of 20 bucks, which we’ll put to some worthy cause. Right. Because there’s nothing people want more than some bureaucrat having a database of who signed up for the porn. Because no one would ever use that to blackmail anybody. A political opponent. An ex-girlfriend. Some contractor you want owing you a favor.
Nope. Absolutely nope, General Assembly. Keep your laws off their bodies. Let freedom ring. May that cumrag banner yet wave. E pluribus anal. In Pornhub we trust. If you want to take Rhode Islanders’ porn away, you’ll have to pull it from their cold, dead, jizz-stained fingers. Because ‘Murica.