Good comment from the Harvard Republican Blog on Ashcroft’s new folly, a war on pornography,
The Baltimore Sun article quotes Attorney General John Ashcroft saying that porn “invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet.” No, Mr. Ashcroft, that’s incorrect; Americans persistently invite porn into our homes through the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet. According to Eric Schlosser’s Reefer Madness, Americans spend between $8 and $10 billion per year on adult entertainment, about as much as on first-run (non-porn) movies. Show me a videocassette that forces itself into an American’s home at gunpoint, ties him to the couch, and plays itself, and I will concede that your claim makes sense; otherwise, you’re wrong.