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olefoo on Feb 14, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months

Not to mention that it establishes a precedent. Your library, your viewing habits, your browser history are all potentially criminal now. Can you declare with certainty that you possess nothing incriminating?

What if the definition of obscene materials were expanded to include depictions of abortion or of darwinism...?

jrockway on Feb 15, 2010 [–]

What if you could be imprisoned for your thoughts alone?

olefoo on Feb 15, 2010 | [–]

Just wait till next year when we start installing the brain scanners at airport security checkpoints.

/me wishes that sounded less plausible.

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