‘In a statement first posted last week on his campaign website, Santorum cites “a wealth of research” demonstrating that pornography causes “profound brain changes” and widespread negative effects in both adults and children, including violence against women. There’s no such evidence of brain changes, researchers say — though the question of pornography’s harmfulness is still in some dispute.’

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‘The SOPA and PIPA bills that went down in flames earlier this year for their unbearable intrusiveness, used content piracy as an excuse to give the government powerful tools with which to censor Internet content. For 2012 the primary author of those bills has switched to a fallback tactic: using child porn as an excuse to create a vast surveillance network from which the government can demand data on every email sent, site visited or link clicked on by all but a fraction of one percent of the U.S. population.’

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