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SCO chairman wants Congress to make port 80 porn free
The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to do something about the rising tide of Internet pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in a ghetto where those who don’t want to see it don’t have to do so. The resolution, which passed both houses of the Utah legislature, was backed by CP80 (”Clean port 80″), a group founded and headed by Ralph Yarro. CP80’s plan to cleanse the Internet isn’t the only controversy that Yarro’s involved in, though; he also happens to chair the board of directors for SCO.

This is stupid for 3 reason that I thought was obvious to most people.

1. The Internet is a GLOBAL network. While the reach of any legislation in the US stops at its borders. MOST porn originates outside of the US, so any such law would be pointless
2. Nearly EVERY time technical specifications are legislated it is BAD. This is because legislatures know nearly nothing about technology.
3. Lastly, While the WWW works primarily on port 80 it does not exclusively use port 80

Now a year or so back there was movement to add a .porn.xxx domain. ICANN and ISPs could have forced adult sites to migrate there, which would have accomplished what CP80 is now trying to achieve, but ICANN which I think is an arm of Commerce dept. rejected the idea because of pressure from conservatives.