Importantly, this is just *part* of their crackdown on free expression. Three other things they want are even more horrifying:
1) To outlaw criticism or humor directed against politicians, “protected classes”, “protected religions” (not including Christianity or Judaism, or any other religion than Islam).
2) To require all reporters and journalists to be licensed by the EU, and their nation, which can be revoked if they run afoul of EU or national bureaucrats, who could do so by whim.
3) To adopt a libel law similar to Britain’s insane libel statute (actually been reformed in Britain a bit), which would define libel as “having offended” a person, even if what was written was factual.
In other words, the EU parliament has gone “full royalist retard”.
That’s why the focus is on the porn ban — it’s a diversionary tactic.
That is why we need to be careful here... Yes porn is bad and disgusting, but if we the people give the Government power to control content on the Internet, the Government will not stop at porn.. Plain and simple..