by: Gene Koprowski.
Minnesota State Rep. Pat Garofalo this
week introduced legislation to prevent the Minnesota Department of
Public Safety (MDPS) from forcing private Internet service providers
(ISPs) to block access to Internet gaming sites.
The bill is in response to a new policy announced by the MDPS. Bureaucrats want ISPs and telecommunications providers to block access to 200 Internet gaming sites for computers located in Minnesota.
"The Department of Public Safety has to have better things to do with their time than to go after a college kid in his dorm room or some guy sitting in his basement spending a couple of hours playing online poker," said Garofalo. "Demanding a private sector Internet service provider block access to Web sites is not a proper function of our state government."
The bill introduced by Garofalo would stop the Department of Public Safety from blocking access to Internet sites without prior legislative approval.
"I have serious concerns about government banning access to Web sites. This is the kind of thing they do in communist China, not the United States of America," said Garafolo.
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