Paul and others wanting new regulations are falling into the
same faulty thinking that they do time and time again though
it always comes back to bite them in the ass. Maybe they'll
just require 2257 info, Paul says. I'm on board in the hopes
they'll make contet theft illegal too, he says. I'll go along hoping
they'll regulate scams, another person says. THOSE LAWS
ARE ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. NEW laws must therefore
make illegal something which is currently legal. No new laws
are needed in order to require 2257 - you actually want them
to enforce the existing law. Scams are illegal - you too want
more ENFORCEMENT, not more regulation.
We see this over and over. Some guy attacks some people with
a knife. More weapons laws, Paul and his many of his fellow
Brits cry. More and more laws until the British Olympic shooting
team isn't even allowed to practice in their own country, and
all the while with each new law violent crime increases dramatically
as law enforcement is told to chase down Olympic athletes rather
than criminals (who were criminals before all of Paul's new laws,
attacking people has always been illegal).
The more intensely hardcore stuff on the web is already illegal
under existing obscenity laws, Paul. New laws can only go after
new things, like say new expanded regulations against
"simulated child porn" to cover a woman pretending to be
a high school cheerleader:
If you want new laws banning new things, I'm sure a lot of PTA
moms would vote for a politician who banned this:
the church ladies would be all about banning this homosexuality,
this simulation of the 16 year granddaughters fornicating:
Yes, when you get on board with those who call for new
"regulations", these are the people who run around talking
about "fornication" and they'll be all too happy to ban this
incestuous obscenity like this:
Would you like to reduce scams, ok, great, call for enforcement
of those laws. Copyright enforcement, fine, call for enforcment
of copyright regulations. Stop falling into the mental trap, though,
of thinking that new laws to ban new things are somehow the
solution to stop things which are already illegal under existing
regulations.