said by major marco :

This is as tedious and stupid as the country of Australia AND the Mormons in Utah attempting to filter the Internet. Maybe Minnesota needs to secede from the Union and form their own country with Utah and Texas? Then all the fundie religious fanatics and other nutjobs can all live together in one big, happy, filtered existence without being bothered by ::REALITY::

said by major marco :

This is as tedious and stupid as the country of Australia AND the Mormons in Utah attempting to filter the Internet. Maybe Minnesota needs to secede from the Union and form their own country with Utah and Texas? Then all the fundie religious fanatics and other nutjobs can all live together in one big, happy, filtered existence without being bothered by ::REALITY::

said by dynodb :

It's not "fundie religious fanatics" behind this- it's a state bureaucrat trying to protect legal Indian casinos and state lottery proceeds.

said by RayW :

The LDS church (Mormons to you) does not affect my surfing at all. Talking to my neighbors, some of them have signed on to an ISP run by the LDS church that does do what you are accusing them of doing, however, and this is a BIG HOWEVER, they choose to do so and are not forced to like you imply (and several have said they like it, others have very mixed opinions).

said by major marco :

Try reading and using your brain first before you sound off.

said by major marco :

This is as tedious and stupid as the country of Australia AND the Mormons in Utah attempting to filter the Internet. Maybe Minnesota needs to secede from the Union and form their own country with Utah and Texas? Then all the fundie religious fanatics and other nutjobs can all live together in one big, happy, filtered existence without being bothered by ::REALITY::

said by major marco :

This is as tedious and stupid as the country of Australia AND the Mormons in Utah attempting to filter the Internet. Maybe Minnesota needs to secede from the Union and form their own country with Utah and Texas? Then all the fundie religious fanatics and other nutjobs can all live together in one big, happy, filtered existence without being bothered by ::REALITY::

said by Chiyo :

EDIT: I did some digging and found a website of what he does or I should say did. Occupation: Network engineer

I'm very shocked that someone in the IT community would be backing a bill to block sites or filter the internet but I guess once you get into politics things change and you've got to do whatever you can do to stay elected :s

I also left a voice mail for him saying I'd like to discuss his proposal of the bill and why he feels that he should be wasting time on such a frivolous bill instead of woryying about bigger things.

You can find more information here on him:
»www.house.leg.state.mn.us/member···id=12262

said by Bit :

Every student getting into college, everyone has great heathcare, there is no crime, roads are perfect, taxes are the lowest in the land...

Cause only when this happens should any frakkin' dumbass political hack be worried two seconds about online any G-D thing.

said by Time :

You expect more from a state that will probably end up having Al Franken as a Senator?

said by qworster :

....you can not legislate morality!

said by dynodb :

Again- in this case it's not even a lawmaker pushing this. It's an unelected bureaucrat.

Regulating gambling, salt, trans-fats in resturants- it's not just "legislating morality"; it's a nanny-state notion that lawmakers know what's best for us better than we do, and are willing to enforce their judgement on us all at gunpoint.

If it had to do with gambling being considered immoral, I doubt the state would invest so much effort in promoting it's own form of gambling by means of Powerball and scratch-off tickets themselves.