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Originally Posted by xg4bx
the government really is desperate to seize control of the internet, they're trying literally everything they can think of. i have trawled some of the deepest and darkest corners of the interwebs and not once have i ever seen an ad for 'underage sex trafficking'. its just one of those striking little names and agendas they stick on really onerous legislation because hey, who would possibly be for this? if you're against the bill you must just want kids sold into sex slavery.
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Fairly standard political rhetoric, unfortunately. Take the moral high ground, and find a way to declare anyone who stands against you to be some kind of unconscionable monster.
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and just like every single other bill that comes out of washington, its no surprise whatsoever that the language is 'vague' and 'broad'. if you want to target a problem then target a problem, they're not fooling anyone with their shotgun approach.
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I don't see "government desperation" here as much as big business desperation. I'd have a look at who was the real author of the bill. If its anything like Stand Your Ground, it probably came from a business PAC through a sock puppet legislator. Big business has already tried to destroy the internet thru the likes of SOPA and PIPA, and successfully pinned the blame on the government for both. Now, its probably done the same thing at the state level.
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Originally Posted by plib
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Isn't this some kind of failure of rhetoric? I wasn't able to get into any kind of debate class in school, but I'm pretty sure there's a name for an argument like this.
He also seems to be unaware of a new style of child porn "site"- a P2P respository hosted on a malware-infected computer without the knowledge or consent of the computer's owner.