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Jan 29Liked by Hank Stephenson

"SB1125 would allow parents to blacklist their IP addresses from porn sites in an attempt to keep their kids off them." I hate it when people who know nothing about how the Internet works try to legislate like this. Filtering by IP address is neither scalable nor effective when most people have IP addresses that are dynamically assigned, easy to change, and VPNs are easy to use. If parents want to filter porn, it's much, much easier for parents to do it on their side using a firewall or web proxy and DNS filter, which persists over dynamic IP changes. There are still ways to get around it (e.g., VPN or use of a mobile device!), so there's no substitute for having conversations with kids and managing their device use.

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Yeah...maybe. Or just do what House Speaker Johnson and his kid do. They have some way of keeping track of what keystrokes forming words are used in each others search engines. Used to be so easy to just find Dads Playboy mags.

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That's "Covenant Eyes," which runs as an app on your devices. Highly NOT recommended. Spyware apps like that seem to have a habit of introducing vulnerabilities and having data breaches.

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Jan 30Liked by Hank Stephenson

Just put a piece of duct tape over the url. That should block things, no? Just don't tell the Republicans in the legislature - they might take that seriously.

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Jan 29Liked by Hank Stephenson

Who had "Kari Lake gets booed off stage" on their Bingo card? Yeah, I know -- not nearly as bad as MU-R's moment in '22, but If I'd known that might happen, I would have snuck in to watch.

Just wait for Hair-always-on-fire-KWard to start a disturbance. Then slide by the security guy while he's wondering if he should tackle her to get his mic back.

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Jan 29Liked by Hank Stephenson

I have a feeling that Crosby is vulnerable down here in Cochise Co. Only a few hundred short on his recall last year. Anne Carl is the real deal. One step at a time.

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Jan 30Liked by Hank Stephenson

I'm so sorry I wasn't able to read this this morning, but I am so happy to read it this evening. So many funny things to note. To wit (DeWit?) -

1) Congratulations to the Art Intern for finally getting the lack-of-diversity right in the picture.

2) God is probably confused because all Rs think that they are God's guy/gal.

3) Are you sure the tabulating machines were from Gila County? Not Cochise County?

4) Did Liz Harris mean to say "pre-orchestrated" or "conspiracy?"

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