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To: gov_bean_ counter

While I’m not pro pornography, I didn’t like hearing Santorum say in the last election, that he would ban it from the internet. If he’d use the office of president to ban things from the internet, he was not a small government, limited powers kind of guy. Additionally, two of my sons have met him and said he’s a politician through and through and not the guy you see on tv. They were very disappointed.


35 posted on 09/25/2015 10:18:48 AM PDT by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: optiguy

“If he’d use the office of president to ban things from the internet, he was not a small government, limited powers kind of guy.”

Got that right.

The president doesn’t actually have the power to ban anything from the internet. To do so would require us to switch to a state-run internet, nationalizing all the ISPs like China, Iran, or North Korea. That’s the only feasible way for content to be managed by a central authority. Even then enforcement would be very difficult.


61 posted on 09/25/2015 11:10:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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