The horrible properties of "Please think of the children" , a phrase so commonly used as to be revolting

Why is "Please think of the children" such a bad phrase? Because of the fact that it has been used so many times to justify the most heinous acts in history. A long list follows of these crimes.

• the Communications Decency Act, or, The Act that nearly killed the internet. Apparently, this act, whick survives as an act only in a few pieces and fragments, was passed to protect children from pornography (and no, I am referring to regular, non-juvenile pornography.) It was marketed by several groups, but mainly the Christian Right. Read more at this link


• The banning of The Tin Drum in Oklahoma City by a judge on the behest of the Oklahoma Council for American Families (or fascists, as Lizard says, but anyway...) This group got it banned on charges of child pornography.


• This horrible, horrible, very smelly site. It is called the "ChildCare Action Project", and it is comprised of easily offended Christian loons who are offended by everything. They find evil movies like Matilda, Harry Potter, and The Golden Compass.


• The Comic Code Authority, created at the behest of Neo-Victorian prudish nitwits (or 1950's Americans) after outcry over the "large amount" of horror and gore in comic books. This killed several unique titles and many companies and turned the books entirely into moralistic propoganda.

More to come...