Moral Panics Solve Nothing

Internet Issues,Media Matters 13 September 2010 | 0 Comments

The one thing that is as reliable as the sun is a media driven moral panic popping up every few months. When I was a kid, it was everything from satanists to backmasking (playing music in reverse to reveal a message). In the current technological age, there is plenty of fodder for panic. The media [...]

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Craigslist Censored

Internet Issues 8 September 2010 | 0 Comments

State Attorney’s General have been hard at work over the last couple of years trying to get Craigslist to shut down their adult services section. Their work payed off yesterday when Craigslist elected to censor itself. Censor is the key word because Craigslist clearly believes this is censorship. The section was originally setup for consenting [...]

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More Grandstanding AG’s

Media Matters 23 July 2010 | 0 Comments

We’ve had many recent examples of state Attorney’s General using their bully pulpit to sound off about whatever moral panic is big that day. Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut is just the latest. He joins New York’s Andrew Cuomo as one of the bigger gasbags in politics. His grandstanding moment du jour is the video game [...]

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