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by reissbaker
1935 days ago
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Doing that when building these devices at scale and handling support queries for it is probably not cheap. Most phone manufacturers don't allow retailers to tamper with the software on the phones/tablets (that opens up a can of worms in terms of security), so they'd have to do it very early, maybe even at the factory — which means earmarking which devices are bound to Utah. Responsible manufacturers (e.g. Apple) would also have to audit the filter code, or build it themselves. It gets even worse for Utah, though. The bill demands that any device activated in Utah comply with the law — not merely sold in Utah. So manufacturers would need to turn on location tracking and make it impossible to disable, for all users in the world, just to detect the corner case that they happen to be in Utah, so that they can silently turn on a Utah-specific porn filter. I doubt the bill will pass, but if it does, I doubt many manufacturers would comply. |
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They'd probably comply. Most could strike a deal with an existing company to provide software for this. Hell, more than likely a company who makes such software is probably a campaign contributor to many of the supporters of this bill.
AFAIK, the law doesn't define how effective the filter must be. So any good-faith attempt is probably more than enough. Even if the software is just a skin of Chrome with a add-on installed that blocks a list of websites.
I won't lie though, I would find it hilarious if foxnews.com was put into this obscenity filter.