SCO head calls for a ban on unrestricted free Wi-Fi
Anti-Linux campaigner, Ralph Yarro, has told a state legislative committee hearing in Utah that free and unintentionally open Wi-Fi networks should be regulated in a bid to stop minors from accessing pornography.
Yarro made his name as the head of the The SCO Group, which maintains that Linux is derivative product that beeches its copyrights. Yarro also spends his time fighting Internet porn as a member of CP80, a non-profit group that wants porn to be carried on a separate “open” port, rather than the standard HTTP port 80.
Yarro, who was at the hearing as a concerned parent, told the committee that there is “a crisis of inappropriate material flowing over an unregulated Internet” and that was a ”generation gap” between children and their parents when it came to the Internet, according to a report in the Desecret Morning News.
Yarro said that the owners of free wireless networks, whether intentionally open or not, should be held responsible for porn downloaded by minors. He suggested that those that don’t restrict access, or install a filtering program, should be fined.
If you’re concerned that the Utah legislature is in danger of making a misinformed decision, don’t worry, the committee is in good hands.
The committee co-chairman, Sen Scott Jenkins, said that his ”brain is on the edge of frying, trying to understand” the technology.
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April 20th, 2007
HAHAHAHAHA!
i get a real kick out of these SCO wanks spouting off!
thanks for an entertaining story about a losing company run by a bunch of LOSERS!
April 20th, 2007
Good for ‘em. The Internt is an adult playground. It’s for adults not kids. Kids have no right wandering around cyberspace where there is unfiltered sex, violence, drug use, and criminal activity.
Open access should be restricted to adults only or heavily filtered and monitored if a minor is going to use it.
Vinton Cerf’s claim that the “Internet is for everyone” is simply not true.
The Internet is for adults and should be treated with the same respect and restrictions as all adult contnet.
April 22nd, 2007
This is the same old story from another point of view. Filtering software is very effective; parents, you are responsible for ensuring that there is filtering software on the notebook, and for knowing where your children are and what they are doing…not the government’s responsibility, not the schools…YOUR’s!
Yarro is the one that also wants to put porn on a seperate port, so that it cannot be accessed on port 80…I would rather put everything Yarro and SCO say on some other port…that would be a much better way to clean up the internet!
April 22nd, 2007
>> parents, you are responsible for ensuring that there is filtering
>> software on the notebook, and for knowing where your children are
>> and what they are doing…not the government’s responsibility, not the >> schools…YOUR’s!
So according to you, we can do away with any laws that prevent a child from buying alcohol, cigarettes or illicit drugs–because parenting is enough!?
The fact is that raising a child has become a community effort. Parents need help because they cannot be with their children 24/7. That’s why there are laws that prevent children from buying adult substances and content, including prongoraphic material in print and on DVD /video.
And those laws should extend to accessing pornography via the Internet.
>>Yarro is the one that also wants to put porn on a seperate port, so that >>it cannot be accessed on port 80…I would rather put everything Yarro >>and SCO say on some other port…that would be a much better way to >>clean up the internet!
Um… huh?
If communities can zone their neighborhoods to keep pornography away from children, then why not apply the same principle to the Internet?
April 24th, 2007
Funny that this news of Yarro’s latest anti-free-speech should break on Hitler’s birthday, his brother in thought.
April 27th, 2007
> The fact is that raising a child has become a community effort.
This is the problem that needs to be corrected. It’s not the community’s job, it’s the parents job!
> If communities can zone their neighborhoods to keep pornography away from children, then why not apply the same principle to the Internet?
Again, responsibility to the wrong place. I, personally, would like to see the end of over-restrictive zoning (in all forms, not specifically in regards to adult content and activities).