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I can lose weight from watching too much porn? Sign me up!

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> since the late 90s/early aughts

Online censorship started far earlier. Bulletin boards in the 80s had the equivalent of today's shadowbans:

https://ask.metafilter.com/117775/What-was-the-first-website-to-hide-trolls-activity-to-everyone-but-the-troll-himself?ref=blog.codinghorror.com

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Great article, but I disagree with your "innocent" and "sinister" answers - it is clearly both:

- First do something > chest pounding > fund-raising

- Second is fight it in court with public funds (doesn't hurt them) to show they're fighting for their constituents

- Third is either win with a sympathetic supreme court or lose and use that opportunity to further fund-raise and try to get out the vote to push for a more sympathetic court in the future

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Child is clearly addicted to watching Bluey. I think this means the state has a compelling interest in banning Australian cartoons.

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