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by userbinator 3025 days ago
Device manufacturers would be forced to install "obscenity filters" on cell phones, tablets, computers, and any other Internet-connected devices.

I vaguely remember reading about a similar effort in China many years ago --- that failed silently.

Trying to tie this into "human trafficking" is a cruel diversion, just like pornography, terrorism, and drugs.

"Let's make the world safer" seems to be the common thread in all of these anti-freedom bills, with the implicit intent of branding those who are against them as supporters of human traffickers, pedophilia, terrorism, or whatever else.

There are two memorable quotes which will become very relevant in the near future:

"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

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> "If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

Couldn't help but think of Malcolm Reynolds and his group from the Firefly series, given that I was re-watching it last night.

>"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

so, this is generally attributed to Franklen, and makes a lot more sense in context:

"those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

It's not really that there's a problem with trading freedom for security; we all do that. But mind the exchange rate!

You are refering to the Green Dam Youth Escort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
>Trying to tie this into "human trafficking" is a cruel diversion, just like pornography, terrorism, and drugs.

More than that, it's downright frustrating. Human trafficking is a very real problem in America. It's not even just a problem that applies to illegal Asian or Latin American immigrants either (which might sound like a strange distinction but I've met people with this view). Teens are immensely vulnerable as well and it's ridiculous that something this serious is being used as just another tool in the war on pornography that some groups have been waging for decades.