[saagarjha]

> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee.

Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?

[rgbrenner]

Read their faq... this question and the one after it: http://humantraffickingpreventionact.com/#q2

They encourage retailers and manufacturers to charge more than the $20 and pocket the difference. They are marketing the bill as pro-business.

[deathanatos]

The writing and grammar on that site is terrible, but the double-entendre on that question takes the cake:

> the retailers can set the amount to be what it feels the market can bare.

I'm hoping that wasn't intentional.

[DavidSJ]

The writing and grammar on that site is terrible,

I’m sorry to do this, but I think you mean that the writing and grammar are terrible, not that they is terrible.

[heartbreak]

Things aren't always what they seem.

Fish and chips is what I had for dinner.

[aspett]

This is mindblowing. "I can't believe" is so watered down it can not express the feeling felt when reading things like this. This past year has been insanity - this is just insanity..

[userbinator]

"I can't believe" is so watered down it can not express the feeling felt when reading things like this.

I believe the suitable phrase is now "I can't even."

[xorxarle]

I'll charge my friends <$20 to install a custom rom/firmware. More $$$$$ for me.

[jordan801]

Because they don't care about the moral and psychological aspects of the content filtered. They care about making money and they know that people will buy the opt out.

[Gibbon1]

> they don't care about the moral and psychological aspects

I disagree. Authoritarians are always obsessed with being able to control peoples access to sex. Because that's a powerful lever you can use to control people.

For instance dominionist evangelicals and polygamist Mormons are obsessed with taking sexual rights away from women and commoditising access. Keeping young people and especially young men from access to porn, same deal.

[Crontab]

That almost makes me wonder if this is being pushed by someone with a financial interest in the outcome.

[brianwawok]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[dang]

Not here, please.