The ISP ban is the main issue in the bill. Everything else is fluff and won’t change how the industry operates today from the US. Back to the ISP thing, it certainly seems like it would be censorship and wouldn’t stand up to a constitutional challenge. It seems that the porn industry has already weathered this precedent for us.
You see, the ISP ban is proposed in order to protect the innocent (meaning kids) in US society from having access to online gambling. The silly thing is that kids really don’t have access to tons of cash, and if they did they probably would choose to spend it on music, movies, malls and video games before they spend it on online gambling. So back to porn for a second, if the US is trying to protect children, then surely every porn site would need to be banned from US view as well, and a little under 50% of this country would be up in arms over that type of censorship.
Dom makes a good point, this is a $12 Billion industry (with a
. That is A LOT of money, and if 80% is coming from the US, that’s $9.6 Billion being spent, which adds up to a lot of voters.
In the end, our best hope in the event this did pass is to stop the ISP ban on the grounds of censorship.