Utah’s Lawmaker Wants to Install Porn Blocking Software On All Cell Phones

ombinedYou may remember Utah Senator Todd Weiler? He’s the guy who successfully pushed an anti-porn resolution through the state Senate earlier this year after declaring porn a “public health crisis.” Well, he’s at it again with his latest brilliant idea: add a bill to abolish internet porn on cell phones in his state. He’d do this by adding online filters and anti-porn software on all cell phones that would require Utah citizens to opt-in before viewing porn online.

“A cell phone is basically a vending machine for pornography,” Weiler told TechCrunch. Critics of Weiler’s (harebrained) plan point out its impracticality, since it would require “major ISPs and cell phone makers to add special porn filtering software just for Utah citizens,” says TechCrunch. Others have compared it to China’s costly and ineffective censorship laws: “The Chinese government has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into censorship and have failed at restricting what their people can see. I don’t see Utah doing any better,” a local Utah ISP provider said. Weiler himself does not even know how the program would work—only that he must stop kids from watching porn! Yeah, good luck with that, Weenie, uh, we mean Weiler.

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Check out more about the Utah lawmaker’s program to block porn on cell phones here: https://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/05/24/this-utah-lawmaker-wants-to-install-porn-blocking-software-on-all-cell-phones/

Utah Declares a War On Porn

nopornCongratulations, Utah—you’ve just become the first state in the US to formally declare pornography a “public health crisis.” It’s true. The state’s Senate recently passed an unanimous resolution to crack down on pornography and the “sexually toxic environment” that it perpetuates. Though the resolution didn’t pass any laws, it aims to address “the pornography epidemic that is harming the citizens of Utah and the nation.”

State Senator Todd Weiler recently told Vice that porn is addictive and harmful, and that its consumption “can impact brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and medical illnesses, and shape deviant sexual arousal.” Utah is a very religious state—60 percent of its residents identify as Mormon—which explains the public condemnation of porn as a “fatal epidemic; like a moral plague.” Many critics are calling Utah out for hypocrisy: the state teaches “abstinence only” in schools, and doesn’t include contraception education in its curriculum, which could account for the high STD rate among teenagers. As studies have shown, when you make sex taboo and shameful, it only fuels sexually risky behavior—maybe it’s time for Utah to include sex-ed in its schools before scapegoating porn for its problems.

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Check out more about Utah’s war on porn here: https://news.vice.com/article/utahs-legislature-has-declared-porn-a-public-health-crisis