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Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.

Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.

Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.

And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…

One of my professors was researching internet censorship in Thailand. Supposedly, pornography is illegal and access to those websites is censored.

He found that from public Internet cafes he had no trouble accessing porn but couldn’t find websites that we’re critical of the government. Really what the government wanted to censor was any resistance.