https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw5j7q/rhode-island-porn-block-explained

The news that two Rhode Island senators have proposed a bill that would require internet service providers to block people from accessing porn online unless they pay a $20 fee has understandably left people with a lot of questions. Unfortunately, the people behind the bill don’t seem to be able to answer them.

The bill’s mastermind, a man on a national crusade against internet porn named Chris Severe, frames it as a universal block designed to prevent everyone from seeing the “unprotected stimuli” that is porn. The office of one of the bill’s sponsors, state Sen. Frank Ciccone, says it will be an opt-in parental block.