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Re: Bureaucratic nightmare for an ISP
said by vpoko  :Well, they don't really have to maintain a list of IP addresses. The government supplies them a list of URL's and they can just block those URL's at the DNS level. If someone wants to access a porn site by typing in its IP address, that's technically different from the using the URL. Even easier; customer calls ISP to complain that they want porn blocked. All the ISP has to do is terminate the customers' service and porn problem is solved! 
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vpoko
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| You know, that's really not an entirely facetious solution. If ISP's were to terminate everyone who wanted porn-blocking, other ISP's would begin to cater to those customers (supply and demand). Some ISP's would be porn-friendly and some would block it for everyone; the problem of having to maintain lists is solved. |
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nixen
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| said by vpoko :You know, that's really not an entirely facetious solution. If ISP's were to terminate everyone who wanted porn-blocking, other ISP's would begin to cater to those customers (supply and demand). Some ISP's would be porn-friendly and some would block it for everyone; the problem of having to maintain lists is solved. Again, the lists wouldn't need to be maintained by individual ISPs. Most likely, it could be implemented in the form of DNSBLs.
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