3am Art Blog

Whats your opinion Jo ?

I see the ACLU simultaneously dropping all their cases and working on this one case. With that kind of PR this would generate, it would be hard to find a case other than Bush v Gore that goes to the supreme court faster. Something tells me that those even those old racist fascists in the majority would still shoot it down.

Well part of me says, How will my duly elected representative torrent his favorite porn sites if there's a blacklist? But then again I think they are going to argue down censorship and get an agreement to merely tax the Internet. I see that one comin' down the pike.
I like that scene in "Mars Attacks" where the martians liquidate both houses.
We need martians. Stat.

There's censorship already in lots of countries, the usual places like China and North Korea and Muslim countries... most surprisingly the UAE which touts itself as the most progressive of the lot. Look what's happening to all those countries. I doubt the same would happen here, but it goes to the mentality of a government that tries to censor its citizens. I'm surprised they haven't came up with a federal sales tax for the net yet.

@Smartest - true so true. The Sales Tax on the net hasn't been successful yet because there;s that nagging little thing that they can't legally tap all IPs which is exactly where this censorship bill is walking. When I first read it - all I could think of was "But where is the money?" it will have to come through monitored taxation on the Internet in the future - because ultimately they just want us to pay for all this fun. I remember when AOL was a subscription service and gave like 200 free hours then charged by the minute. I knew people with $200-$400 Internet bills LOLOLOLOLOL