“Wrong hole.”
Forget .xxx, a Utah measure to curb Internet smut access would create your computer’s own porn pipe.
Ralph Yarro III, who chairs the board of Utah-based UNIX software solutions provider SCO, effectively lobbied the non-binding resolution through both houses of his state’s legislature after which it was approved by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. The resolution calls on the US Congress to designate port 80 a porn-free zone.
Every Internet-capable computer uses ports to communicate with the outside world, and each Internet function we take for granted has a particular port devoted to it. Port 25 is usually used for outgoing mail, port 110 for incoming, port 443 for secure transactions like online banking, and so on. Port 80 is the standard for transferring web pages.
The Internet Community Ports Act, authored by Yarro’s “Clear Port 80” (CP80), would require that port to be a “community channel”, with a Miller Test applied to lock out anything unseemly.
Man! Imagine if Porn got port 69? That would be so clever! I love it when people use the number 69 to stand for anything sexual, regardless of whether anyone other than Lee Stone and very small women actually 69 anymore.
(Alas, port 69 is already used for booting routers and the Blaster virus.)
Read more about CP80’s efforts here.
Previously: XFanz to stage erotic festival, perhaps erotically; The Decline will be televised
See also: SCO chairman wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free (arstechnica.com)
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