[Antoninus]

If you honestly think that this wouldn't be used to open the door to further censorship, you're a fool. Once the feds get Americans used to the idea of dictating what they can do on the internet, it will not stop with porn.

Are you serious? You do realize that most pornography was outlawed in this country up through the 1960s, right? Were we some sort of fascist dictatorship until the "enlightened" Supreme Court of the 1960s came a long and "fixed" everything?

You do realize that's the narrative of the Obama left you're parroting, right?

[Utmost Certainty]

The Internet didn’t exist in the 1960s, so you’re arguing apples vs. oranges here.

[af_vet_rr]

Are you serious? You do realize that most pornography was outlawed in this country up through the 1960s, right? Were we some sort of fascist dictatorship until the "enlightened" Supreme Court of the 1960s came a long and "fixed" everything?

I'm old enough to remember that it was still available and still easy to get before the "enlightened" Supreme Court, so please don't try and pretend like it was hard to get when it was "outlawed" because it wasn't hard to get at all.

The problem with your argument is that there has never been anything like the internet, and regardless of the laws on the books, once you go down the road of having the government censor any part of the internet, we're on the road to becoming China or Saudi Arabia.

Because I know, and I think you know as well, that once Americans get used to the idea of having their internet censored by the government, it won't be long before the liberals start passing legislation to protect this or that minority or this or that religion.

You and I would think that's ludicrous, but pump out two generations of Americans who are used to the internet being censored by the government, and stir in the liberals love of trying to ban "hate speech" (speech that disagrees with them), and it's not hard to imagine an internet where you aren't allowed to say bad things about illegal immigrants or Islam or whichever group is the flavor of the month.

When the camel gets his nose in the tent, it's over. Today it's protecting women, children, or morality. Tomorrow it's protecting this minority group or that minority group, next week it's protecting this religion or that religion.