As you are all too well aware, we are living in
interes utterly bizarre times. I was alive in the 60s, and it still wasn’t
as batshit crazy as what we’re seeing now.
For today’s example, I’m going to step away
from the lunacy emanating directly from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and give you a
bill proposed in the Arizona state legislature by a whackadoodle named Gail
Griffin (RWNJ). Her House Bill 2444 w-wou (sorry, laughing too hard) would require
(hahahaha)…
Well, first of all it’s the “Obscene and
Criminal Blocking Software” law. And it requires all “product[s] that make
content accessible on the Internet” bought in the great, regressive state of
Arizona to block by default access to
porn. (Think about that. By default.) And if you want to unblock your, er,
device to view “obscene material”, you have to pay $20. To some state entity
TBD.
And your $20 and all the $20 of your porn-fan brethren
will go to fund the Kleptocrat’s wall along the southern border. Imagining the Tea
Partiers who infest Arizona forking out any
amount of money to unblock their “obscene material” is just hysterical.
No, I swear I am not making this up. You can
read the whole farkochte thing here. Her
definitions of “specified anatomical areas” alone are worth the wading through
all the all-caps.
Griffin apparently isn’t the first legislator
to display her complete and utter ignorance of how The Interwebz works; other porn-blocking
nonsense has been attempted in Kentucky, Alabama, Utah, Rhode Island, South
Carolina and Virginia—all proud bastions of ignorance. (Well, I don’t know what’s
up with Rhode Island.) But she seems the first to tie porn to the wall.
Publicly, at least.
Okay, but today’s post is not so much about
Griffin’s idiocy as it is about Twitter’s response. Because this thread is
smashing. I started taking screen caps to give you an idea:
But you should really just go here
and start scrolling. Just don't be drinking anything while you do that.
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