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The Rule of Idiocy (#1034)
Posted: 2/21/2003; 1:06 AM by Terry Frazier
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There appears to be a heated competition afoot for who can develop the most boneheaded attack on American liberty -- and it all seems to ooze out of Pennsylvania. Which is worse, former PA Gov. <strike>Uncle</strike> Tom Ridge's terrorist propoganda at Ready.gov, or this crackpot attack on the Internet by PA's self-annointed national social savior and Attorney General Mike Fisher ?

[...] Pennsylvania's attorney general, operating under a highly unorthodox state law passed last year, has so far instructed Internet providers with customers in the state to block subscribers from at least 423 websites around the world.
The law is unusual because it places risks of a $5,000 fine on companies providing Internet connections to websites with illegal photographs, not on the pornography sites themselves. [...]

Is there something about being elected to a public office in America that deprives a person of basic common sense and a connection to reality? I'm not even worried about corruption anymore. I feel like I'm living an episode of the Twilight Zone.

Liberties Group Fights Net Block. The Center for Democracy and Technology will try to convince Pennsylvania's attorney general to disclose details about the state's unusual efforts to force Internet providers to block visits to websites containing child pornography. [Wired News]

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