[NativeNewYorker]

anybody who is not functionally brain dead knows that if the government got in the habit of censoring what we do on the internet, they would not stop with porn.

Exactly. How difficult would it be for a future Democrat administration to label THIS place as "obscene"?

[af_vet_rr]

Exactly. How difficult would it be for a future Democrat administration to label THIS place as "obscene"?

Ostensibly such legislation is about "protecting the children" or this or that group. Places like Free Republic discuss guns, and the liberals all know that guns kill children just by their very existence, and you can't have children reading about guns, so let's get some legislation going to restrict access to websites that discuss guns!

That's exactly what would happen. More government bureaucracy would have to be created to help censor the internet, and once you create a new government bureaucracy they start casting about for more stuff to do, because more stuff = more funding. And the liberals would start trying to push through all kinds of legislation once they have a Government Internet Censorship Bureau to play with.

[Marcella]

“Exactly. How difficult would it be for a future Democrat administration to label THIS place as “obscene”?”

Yes, that is the rub. There is no definition of “obscene” or “porn”. It is in the eye of the beholder.

The only absolute in law about porn is anything sexual with a child and that will put one in prison.

Holder's Justice Dept. would shut this place down as obscene and subversive and I don't know what Santorum’s definition of porn is and I don't care and he needs to shut up about this and figure out how this country can stop spending more than they have.