“This isn’t just a religious moral issue,” said Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler, according to CBS. “Some people want to make this about sex education. No boy or girl needs to see those images to learn how families are created.”
Weiler also said state and federal law should make internet service providers default to porn-free settings for consumers, according to KSL. That means customers would have to sign up for porn.
The resolution’s full text can be read here.
Utah has been trying to squash pornography for a while. In 2013, the legislature passed a resolution sponsored by Weiler saying “soft-core porn”—described as sexualized imagery in the advertising and the media—hindered brain development in children. The state instituted an actual “porn czar” position back in 2001—technically called the Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman.
A 2009 study by a Harvard Business School professor found that the state had the highest rate of Internet porn consumption in the country.
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