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Utah considers bill that would install anti-porn filters on new phones

5 pointsby scottbucksabout 4 years ago

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bediger4000about 4 years ago
The &quot;anti-porn&quot; filter will of course be bogus, just like the police dogs that can &quot;sniff out&quot; porn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ca.news.yahoo.com&#x2F;utah-police-introduce-porn-sniffing-1457844147707958.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ca.news.yahoo.com&#x2F;utah-police-introduce-porn-sniffin...</a> which are also from Utah, and suggest a trend or the presence of a vein of something.<p>These efforts all fail, mainly because there&#x27;s no definition of porn other than &quot;I know it when I see it&quot;, much less an algorithm to detect porn. You can cite Rigan Ap-Apid&#x27;s &quot;An Algorithm for Nudity Detection&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;249767252_An_Algorithm_for_Nudity_Detection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;249767252_An_Algori...</a>) but nudity is a good deal different than &quot;porn&quot;, and Ap-Apid&#x27;s algorithm doesn&#x27;t actually work well.
Nextgridabout 4 years ago
I&#x27;m glad that the world&#x27;s pyramid scheme capital has decided to focus on such a dangerous problem that destroys lots of livelihoods and careers each year.<p>(&#x2F;s in case it isn&#x27;t obvious - Utah is a safe haven for pyramid schemes if you weren&#x27;t aware)