HB293 Preventing minors from accessing obscenity on certain electronic devices with internet access.
Preventing minors from accessing obscenity on certain electronic devices with internet access.
Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?
Overall Impact Score
Concerning
Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)
Your Wallet
Filtering requirements would add costs to devices and create compliance burdens for retailers.
Your Community
Aims to protect children but device-level filtering is technically impractical and easily circumvented.
Your Freedom
Government-mandated content filters on personal devices raise serious First Amendment concerns and affect adult access to legal content.
Status
Refer for Interim Study: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/07/2026 House Journal 1 P. 75
Sponsor
Margaret Drye (R)
The Short Version
Would require internet-enabled devices sold in NH to have content filters blocking obscene material from minors. Raises serious implementation and free speech concerns. Referred to interim study.
Who's Behind This Bill?
Who Benefits
- ▲ Parents concerned about children's internet access
Who Pays the Price
- ▼ Adults whose device access would be filtered by default
- ▼ Device manufacturers and retailers
- ▼ Free speech advocates
Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.
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