“Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced,” decrees the 2012 Republican Party Platform in a section entitled “Renewing American Values.” That plank also urges the implementation of unspecified measures “to ensure that the Internet cannot become a safe haven for predators….” The apparatchiks who drafted the platform apparently gave little — if any — thought to the matter of reconciling a national “war on porn” with the platform’s pious invocation of federalism and the Tenth Amendment. It’s also notable that the section dealing with threats to privacy alluded to the proliferation of surveillance … Continue reading Reich-Publican Platform: Preserve the Fedgov’s Porn Monopoly!