Ordinarily, softriver, I'd agree with you and I still do to an extent but we're really through the looking glass these days. I'd say we're not in Kansas but ironically, the idea is to turn the whole country pretty much into Kansas. I expect teaching evolution to be outlawed any day now, or at least after the jihadi purge of the Supreme Court. It may be paranoia but I suspect what is going on here is an attempt to use commerce to do what CDA, COPA, et al failed to do through legislation. You can have all the smutty naked Vickys in the world available but if people can't find a way to pay for them... As for the financial clout of the porn industry, they've been conspicuously MIA most of the time--too busy snorting coke and screwing teenage runaways I suspect. Groups like the ACLU and the American Library Association seem to have done most of the fighting on the censorship front of the culture wars. The majority of the electorate has been silent as well. No one wants to be seen defending "feelthy pictures." Clarence Thomas certainly forgot his love for Long Dong Silver's exploits once he got in the public eye. At least, we'll have company. The leaders in places like China and Saudi Arabia are just as keen on "moral values" as our lot. Like our former good buddies Saddam, Noriega, etc. they're all good as long as we're fighting a common "enemy."

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken