Recently, East Tennessee State University sent out an email regarding the blocking of certain internet sites that offered no substantial reasons behind their motives, other than referring everyone to a Tennessee Code Annotated, which in-and-of-itself was as confusing as it was impossible to navigate.
According to ETSU, these were the additional sites blocked by the bill.
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