Battleangel

Indeed. CNET is correct. We have seen it before. This is back to the future, sort of.

A Washington Post story about the FBI’s forming of an anti-pornography squad threw some bloggers back to the 1980s when then Attorney General Edwin Meese took on obscenity as his signature issue.
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Last month, the bureau began recruiting for the squad of eight agents, a supervisor and support staff to gather evidence against the “manufacturers and purveyors” of pornography, the story said. Attached to the job posting was a memo describing the initiative as on of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ top priorities, according to the Post.

The story also quotes an unnamed FBI agent as saying, “I guess this means we’ve won the war on terror.” That flippant tone was apparently infectious…

I have to ask: What are they going to do exactly, for a living I mean? Are they going to outlaw porn? Because otherwise I don’t see what this new squad is gonna do all day. Conservatives are on a roll nevertheless. And it could spell doom for anyone using the Internet, which is after all still controlled by the DoC via ICANN. I assume there is an agenda here, other than saving righteous white christian people from smut.

The 80s are back in fashion. Bring out the Delorean. All they need now is another Reagan.