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Thanks for your level-headed comment, friend. I have just one note.

> is Utah actually different than other places most Americans would respect for being more "level-headed", like the UK (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-porn-ban-digital-economy-...) or Germany (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks)?

In these places, you can go to jail for posting a slur on Twitter or doing a Nazi salute.

In America, that is (or should be) considered insane dystopian bullshit, not "level-headed" policy.

Also, both those places have a comically naive and hamfisted understanding of the Internet, and America is usually above that (as every modern country should be). Didn't England try to ban encryption, and didn't Germany censor all of YouTube with GEMA via a super-literal interpretation of copyright violation? Are these places that sound appealing to live in as a technophile? "Das Internet ist Neuland." *puts on 3D glasses*



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