Unless the news industry is willing to stand up for the first amendment rights of the porn business, we’re all going to suffer in the long run.
For nearly a decade the censors have used pornography and terrorism as an excuse to impose filtering on us all and to occupy the Internet’s choke-points. Even the sleaziest news corporations decry porn on the Net, rather than defend the first amendment rights of pornographers and their customers.
Declan MacCullagh’s outstanding Politech site is essential for anyone who cares about what our government is doing to the first amendment in the name of protecting us from ourselves. Declan recently posted a excellent roundup of civil liberties issues and an Internet, pornography, and law update.