Alabama lawmakers consider bill to require activation of phone porn filters to protect kids Updated Apr 21, 2021; An Alabama lawmaker aiming to reduce children’s exposure to pornography wants to change state law to require porn filters on phones to be automatically activated. The House Judiciary Committee held a public hearing today on the bill by Rep. Chris Sells, a Republican from Greenville. Sells, in explaining the purpose of his legislation, noted that state laws prohibit children from buying alcohol and cigarettes. “But yet we have an iPhone or a mobile device when they’re perhaps 10 years old and all they’ve got to do is punch a couple of buttons and it’s wide open to every kind of adult thing you can imagine,” Sells said.