[sllug-members]: Bill to restrict open wireless access

[warrenw at xmission.com]

Daw and Yarro are friends who partnered on the CP80 bill in the last  
legislative session.  In the intervening year, Yarro has spoken out  
about what he perceives as the dangers of public wifi and its ability  
to provide porn to minors (he ranted in committee about how kids could  
war drive neighborhoods and download porn from their cars in the  
street if they found unsecured networks).

Its a small leap to this bill, if you ask me.

-w

Quoting Nathan Lane <nathamberlane at gmail.com>:

> What is the premise for this bill?  Did something happen to cause this bill
> to be written?
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 12:42 PM, Michael Place <mp at xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> Rep. Brad Daw is preparing to introduce legislation to heavily restrict
>> free and open wireless Internet access in the state. A full copy of the
>> text of this bill is available here:
>>
>> http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/hbillint/hb0139.htm<http://le.utah.gov/%7E2008/bills/hbillint/hb0139.htm>
>>
>> What this bill essentially does, as I read it, is to outlaw free public
>> wireless Internet access in the state of Utah unless that access has a
>> provision to verify the age of users via either a credit card or (get
>> this) government issued ID.
>>
>> This proposal would radically reshape or destroy things like the future
>> of community wifi projects. I can't even begin to fathom how this would
>> affect cellular data networks. I'm sure there are other concerns members
>> of this list would like to bring up as well.
>>
>> It's going to be another interesting session on the hill. If you would
>> like to contact the Rep sponsoring this bill, his name is Brad Daw and
>> he's from Orem. His contact information is available below:
>>
>> http://www.braddaw.com
>>
>> -mp
>>
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> Nathan Lane
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