Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

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www.theregister.com/2023/03/04/texas_abortion_info_law/

A proposed Texas state law would make it a criminal offense for internet service providers (ISPs) to provide access to websites that sell abortion pills or provide information about the procedure.

The bill, introduced by Republican Steve Toth, a member of the state House of Representatives, would require ISPs in Texas to "make every reasonable and technologically feasible effort to block internet access to information or material intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug."

I bet you he thinks North Korea, China and Cuba are awful for restricting the internet.

Scumbag.

And in another story about TX

Pot vote has Oklahoma hungry to rake in green from Texas

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pot-vote-oklahoma-hungry-rake-green-texas-97628245

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across the Red River to gamble in glitzy, Las Vegas-style tribal casinos or to relax at cabins or swim and ski in lakes that dot southern Oklahoma.

Soon, they could come north for another draw: recreational marijuana.

(contd).