re: #51 Nerdy Fish

You say sarcasm, but look at the phrasing of the bill: “on devices used by minors”. This includes the family computer (remember, Alabama, I highly doubt most families have more than one), and while it’s probably true that most minors these days would have a phone or a tablet to do that sort of thing on, it’s a foot in the door. How long before the first ruling comes down, “Any device in a household with a minor must have a porn filter on it”? I guarantee you it won’t be long.

It’s the foot in the door, the camel nose under the tent flap: Once you mandate filtering, then the limits on what is filtered and the audience it’s filtered from are subject to the whims of the government in power. And there’s plenty of precedent for governments and courts alike to widen the definition of “obscene” when it suits them. Such as declaring protest imagery as “obscene” because it is “anti-American” and thus “immoral.”