The Congress has passed yet more asinine legislation making it a crime to use misleading links to fool minors into viewing obscene material. I do not know who exactly does this type of chicanery, nor do I know what type of kick somebody would get from doing this, but, nevertheless, Congress, apparently, is certain that the ever expanding social classification known as Sex Offenders is most likely up to no good in this new instance of a straw man being erected in order to provide these politicians with a venue to appear as though they are accomplishing matters of public gravity. What is so profoundly stupid about this law is it cannot distinguish between images that are graphic in the sense of pornography and those that are merely artistic displays which might incorporate different hypertexts and URL’s into their artistic expression. I suspect that this law will be quashed by the Supreme Court, with Scalia, Roberts, and Scalia’s pet, Thomas, dissenting. It is better just to allow private technologies to develop in response to this alleged problem of the Internet. This would not only protect freedom of speech and expression, but it would ensure that there is actually a problem in the first place, because no one would invest in developing these technologies if there were not a market for them in the first place. R Cole

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