Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Utah Transit Authority is now the Porn Police


The Utah Transit Authority has an ordinance that makes viewing "porn" while using their free Wi-Fi illegal and leaves people found guilty of this crime subject to fines of hundreds of dollars.

According to this article in XBIZ (site NSFW)"enforcement would be done by a transit police officer, who would issue the citation on the spot."

So what counts as porn and what doesn't?

Can you get busted for watching a movie that shows two men kissing? What about looking at an online underwear catalog?

Are these transit police officers going to be able to sieze your computer or make you show them what you're watching/doing on your own computer?

Creepy.