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Stopping people from looking at porn is, at best, orthogonal to sex trafficking. This is a bunch of religious zealots trying to control others under the guise
by morgante 10y ago
Stopping people from looking at porn is, at best, orthogonal to sex trafficking.
This is a bunch of religious zealots trying to control others under the guise of humanitarianism. It's a classic technique: who can argue with sex trafficking as a cause? So just wrap up hideous legislation in that disguise.
- mst 10y ago> who can argue with sex trafficking as a cause? Anybody who thinks the police raping prostitutes is a bad thing.
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y agoThere seems to be a creeping habit of quietly slipping in draconian legislation as a rider to otherwise routine proposals. This feels like a slightly different approach in that the primary legislation has a nice easily defendable title. Who wouldn't want to stop human trafficking? Unfortunately, it seems that there is little interest in challenging this behaviour, presumably because the only ones who are in a position to directly challenge those doing it also have a vested interest in keeping such behaviour out of the public eye.
- module0000 10y ago> Stopping people from looking at porn "Porn" is open to a lot of interpretation. What is pornography... women wearing colored clothing? Pictures of Islamic women's ankles? It's a slippery slope as they say, and incredibly subjective.
- morgante 10y agoI know it when I see it.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>"Porn" is open to a lot of interpretation. No, it's open to completely arbitrary redefinition for the sake of an authority figure's personal power. If this bill passes, I give an 85% chance that at some point someone will claim the Democratic Party's website is child pornography. I am willing to bet money on this. A power-grab is a power-grab.