Utah Creates Adult Registry

The Governor of Utah has signed a bill which creates an internet adult content registry. Businesses affected must begin compliance by January 1, 2006. The bill the Governor signed, House Bill 260, requires the state to create an “adult content registry,” consisting of URLs and IP addresses which contain content harmful to minors. The state will decide if the content is harmful.

The law requires that "upon request by a consumer, a service provider shall filter content to prevent the transmission of material harmful to minors to the consumer.”

The law also requires that “upon request by the consumer, a service provider may not transmit material from a content provider site listed on the adult content registry," to the consumer.

Michigan enacted a similar law in 2004.

Is this the beginning of a "Do Not Call" style trend for online addresses?

How will businesses handle this? We shall see.