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With everything else going on in the region, lawmakers from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party have decided to demostrate just how disconnected they are from reality by proposing two laws restricting access to Internet pornography.

The first proposal, from Member of Knesset Ya’akov Magari, seeks to outlaw access to pornographic Websites in government offices.

The second - and much more intrusive - proposed law, from Shas MK Amnon Cohen, would require Internet surfers at home to identify themselves via password and fingerprint to gain access to the page.

Citing a need to restrict children’s access to pornography, Cohen said, “(I) proposed this law to create a situation where these sites are blocked from the outset, and opening them will only be possible with a physical key that identifies the user,” according to the report.

In a similar move, National Religious Party MK Zevulun Orlev has proposed a law that would bar cellular customers from accessing sex lines from their cell phones unless they request access beforehand from the cellular providers, the report said.

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