Of course its not about Pedos or kids.

They've been talking this way about the free movement of information ever since military systems like DARPANET and TOR became publicly accessible.

Nevermind that the whole point of DARPANET and TOR's usefulness to the military IS that they're publicly accessible.

The State is a two-headed beast that wants to be able to see everything everywhere and also wants the internal enemies of rival states to be secure in their ability to get info out and plot sedition. The other head fears the very things it depends upon because the tools care not what the info is or in which direction it flows.

The State-secrets protectors and the copyright racket have been in cahoots ever since granny got tech-savvy enough to trade out of print ragtime recordings and talk about how old she was the first time she shagged grampa.

We are just the bogeyman they use to try to justify the elimination of all privacy and the death of the public domain.

Somewhere Dante the Anti is formulating an argument for Ethan that he should abandon VirPed's arguments for acceptance because they cannot be seen as anything but self-serving rationales from Anarchists who hide behind Pedo nicks to argue for smashing the surveillance-state. And good luck trying to get the public, post 9/11, to step down from consenting to the Fed watching what it claims it needs to to prevent the next one.

Dante