Right now, the talk is about how Hillary Clinton came out against the TPP, in an attempt to make herself look progressive. I thought this would be a good time to bring up something that Hillary would prefer you forget: her support of censorship of video games.
In 2005, then Senator Hillary Clinton sponsored the Family Entertainment Protection Act, with cosponsors Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh. The bill would have imposed criminal penalties for the crime of selling an "adult-rated" video game to a minor, and was widely panned as a violation of the First Amendment.
Here is her announcement, from her own mouth, where she compares violent video games to lead poisoning. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is...
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
The United States Family Entertainment Protection Act (FEPA) was a bill introduced by Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and co-sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT), Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Evan Bayh (D-IN) on November 29, 2005. The bill called for a federal mandate enforcement of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings system for video games in order to protect children from inappropriate content.[1]
The FEPA would have imposed fines of $1000 dollars or 100 hours of community service for a first time offense of selling a "Mature" or "Adult-Only" rated video game to a minor, and $5000 or 500 hours for each subsequent offense. The bill also called for a FTC investigation into the ESRB to ascertain whether they have been properly rating games.[2]
Similar bills have been passed in some U.S. states such as California, Michigan and Illinois, but were ruled to be unconstitutional.[3]
Thankfully, this stinking pile of poo that threatened to stifle our First Amendment rights died quietly in a Senate Committee. Similar bills passed on the state level have also been ruled unconstitutional, repeatedly, by the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
So for those who think that Hillary Clinton is our great progressive hope for 2016, I thought I'd show you some of what she does when the political winds are blowing in a different direction. This is what Hillary Clinton did when she was a United States Senator. She pandered to mad mommies in the wake of a stupid moral panic by attacking our civil liberties, hand in hand with the worst conservadem DINOs that have historically stained our party.
Sorry, Hillary Clinton, I still don't forgive you for your attempt to trample on the First Amendment. Pull crap like this, and you lose my vote. I figured now's a good time to remind voters of what you did, to make sure that the Tipper Gore wing of the Democratic Party is forever dead and buried. We don't need censors in our party.