House Overwhelmingly Passes SAFE Act on Obscene Images (Engadget)
Posted in censorship, child porn, engadget, internet, legislation, obscenity on Dec 6th, 2007
Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. [...]