FCC to provide special porn-free Internet
There's one fussy detail in the FCC's new plan to give The People free broadband: no porn allowed. Chair Kevin Martin's proposal will require the winning service provider to implement content filters "to protect children," as reported by Ars Technica. Startup M2Z Network once offered the FCC a similar deal, promising to give 95 percent of Americans free broadband with compulsory filters set to "block access to sites purveying pornographic, obscene or indecent material." As defined by? Even if the feds can keep the children from seeing anything unclean, a Pump Up the Volume-style showdown between the FCC and the Happy Harry Hard-On of tomorrow can't be far behind.