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Unless the site creators are in Rhode Island, I don't see how they could enforce that.

I see many Federal layers that would supersede this law. For one thing, the commerce clause limits states ability to regulate interstate commerce. There are also privacy rights concerns.

This seems like a nonstarter.

Unless the site creators are in Rhode Island, I don't see how they could enforce that.

I see many Federal layers that would supersede this law. For one thing, the commerce clause limits states ability to regulate interstate commerce. There are also privacy rights concerns.

This seems like a nonstarter.

Yeah, if I lived in Rhode Island I'd be pissed if I had to use a VPN that would slow down my porn videos, just to get around a $20 fee.
That and my phone seems to think I'm somewhere between DC to NYC at any given moment, and there doesn't necessarily seem a consistent reasoning behind this.

http://wpri.com/2017/06/09/ri-lawmaker-defending-himself-after-porn-spotted-on-hearing-handout/

A state lawmaker is defending himself after giving his colleagues a handout that showed a web browser with pornographic references loaded in the background. However, the screenshot of the Wikipedia article also showed multiple browser tabs open with headers for pages referencing pornography. Those tabs were open in the background, so no pornographic images could be seen.